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- adjective biology Using light for energy, but requiring a source of
carbon other than carbon dioxide.
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Examples
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The microbial food web, based on dissolved organic matter, includes photoheterotrophic bacteria, using sunlight as an energy source but without the production of oxygen, and viruses which are responsible for control of the bacterial populations.
Marine biodiversity 2007
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The microbial food web, based on dissolved organic matter, includes photoheterotrophic bacteria, using oxygen, and viruses which are responsible for control of the bacterial populations.
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grass fires quantity of sea salt aerosols in troposphere quantity of anaeorbic bacteria in the oceans quantity of aerobic bacteria in the oceans quantity of anaerobic nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the early oceans quantity, variety, and timing of sulfate-reducing bacteria quantity of geobacteraceae quantity of aerobic photoheterotrophic bacteria quantity of decomposer bacteria in soil quantity of mycorrhizal fungi in soil quantity of nitrifying microbes in soil quantity
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