Simple answer: an organism that doesnt need to feed off of other living things for food. They can make their own food from non living things like sunlight, water and gases
any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists.
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An organism capable of synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances, using light or chemical energy. Green plants, algae, and certain bacteria are autotrophs.
they also transform light energy into chemical energy
Life Sciences & Allied Applications / botany of organisms such as green plants capable of manufacturing complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources such as carbon dioxide, water, and nitrates, using energy from the sun
So basically orgasms that make their own food
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kingdom archaebacteria is both heterotroph and autotroph
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its both
An alligator is an autotroph.
the ability to be self-sustained by producing food from inorganic compounds
A potato is an autotroph.
Yes it is. The most common definition of an autotroph is "an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals. Because autotrophs produce their own food, they are sometimes called producers." By that definition, a pine tree certainly qualifies.
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Autotroph is not a verb and therefore does not have a past tense. Autotroph is a noun.
autotroph, because it creates energy by itself from basic parts, using sun energy and CO2.
kingdom archaebacteria is both heterotroph and autotroph