Definition of phototrophic in English:
phototrophic
adjective ˈfəʊtə(ʊ)trəʊfɪkˈfəʊtə(ʊ)trɒfɪkˌfōdəˈträfik
Biology (of an organism) obtaining energy from sunlight to synthesize organic compounds for nutrition.
Example sentencesExamples
- Overall, the results stress the importance of both heterotrophic and phototrophic metabolisms when considering environmental controls on the structure of bacterial communities in the sea.
- The high nutrient demands of microbial degradation imply furthermore a competition for nutrients between heterotrophic degradative and phototrophic productive processes.
- By contrast, no linkage was detected in crosses with the five class II mutant strains since phototrophic recombinants were recovered at high frequency.
- We have argued that more than the alga's, it is the host's metabolism that has had to adjust to the conditions of phototrophic endosymbiosis.
- Synthesis of the full spectrum of flavour precursors may resume if the callus is allowed to redifferentiate or regain a capacity for phototrophic metabolism.