Rhodophyta are autotrophic, which is an organism that obtains and stores Floridian starch from photosynthesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

On land, an estimated 60 Pg C (60 billion tonnes) is emitted to the atmosphere each year by autotrophic respiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carbon dioxide] Reference

A number of autotrophic organisms have specialized mechanisms that allow for absorption of this gas into their cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carbon cycle] Reference

The frenzied bludgeoning stopped and the bladder weeds sank below the waves, their autotrophic beings temporarily exhausted.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOTHOUSE]

Among marine microbes, consumers of primary producers are those which feed on autotrophic prokaryotes or autotrophic protists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marine microbes] Reference

In the time after a fire during which appreciable tree mortality occurred, the majority of respiration shifts from autotrophic to heterotrophic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate change in relation to carbon uptake and carbon storage in the Arctic] Reference

Ecosystem respiration has two major components, RA (autotrophic or plant respiration) and RH (heterotrophic or animal plus microbial respiration).    From Wordnik.com.  [Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on function of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term] Reference

Some protist species retain and use the chloroplasts in the prey they eat while other protists harbor symbionts, entire autotrophic bacteria or protists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marine microbes] Reference

It becomes obvious that photosynthesis not only provides an explanation for the existence of the autotrophic organisms but also furnishes food for man and animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1961 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Microbial autotrophic and heterotrophic eucaryotes in Antarctic waters: relationships between biomass and chlorophyll, adenosine triphosphate and particulate organic carbon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota] Reference

When released, most of the ammonium is often chemically altered by a specific type of autotrophic bacteria (bacteria that belong to the genus Nitrosomonas) into nitrite (NO2 -).    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitrogen cycle] Reference

Assimilation is the incorporation of reactive nitrogen, be it as ammonia (NH3) or as nitrate (NO − 3), by autotrophic organisms into amino acids that are then used to synthesize proteins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global material cycles] Reference

While they make a good case for a simple autotrophic core of reactions forming the start of life chemistry, there are a range of details missing in their treatment of the thermodynamic aspects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panda's Thumb: November 2006 Archives] Reference

Similarly, among protists, a radiolarian may capture and ingest, more or less indifferently, a bacterium, an autotrophic flagellate, a herbivorous oligotrich ciliate, or another radiolarian (Fig 2E).    From Wordnik.com.  [Marine microbes] Reference

In the sea, autotrophic respiration is thought to account for about 58 Pg of the dissolved inorganic carbon in surface waters each year, with the contribution of heterotrophic respiration being 34 Pg C. Vulcanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carbon dioxide] Reference

Typically this is still applied to trophic dynamics (e.g. the classic example of the cascade of effects after the removal of the sea otter from its environs), but it has also been applied to autotrophic situations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species influences upon ecosystem function] Reference

As opposed to the heterotrophic organisms, the organisms belonging to the second group, the so-called autotrophic organisms, i.e. the green plants and certain bacteria, do not require organic material supplied from without.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1961 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Usually in surface waters there are about a thousand per ml of small flagellates which feed on bacteria (both autotrophic and heterotrophic prokaryotes) and 1 or 2 ciliates, oligotrichs (Fig 2B) and tintinnids (Fig 2C) or heterotrophic dinoflagellates which feed on autotrophic protists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marine microbes] Reference

 Fungi are heterotrophic eukaryotes, while plants are  autotrophic eukaryotes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Many are autotrophic: light, nitrogen, sulfur  Many are anaerobic  Many have cilia or flagella.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Reelstand madding retrospection myomatosis, repair mogilalia otomyiasis reticulate autotrophic obviously!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Headlines from World Press Review] Reference

+ / Ca2+ action potentials during environmental sensing and signalling could be widespread among both heterotrophic and autotrophic marine protists.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

When released, most of the ammonium is often chemically altered by a specific type of autotrophic bacteria (bacteria that belong to the genus Nitrosomonas) into nitrite (NO 2 -).    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

More important, lateral gene transfer and endosymbiosis are probably the most obvious mechanisms for creating complex genomes that could lead to free-living cells and complex cellular communities in the short geological interval between life’s origin and the establishment of autotrophic CO2 fixation about 3.8 billion years ago and microbial sulfate reduction 3.47 billion years ago on the basis of isotope data.    From Wordnik.com.  [A very interesting report - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

"seaweed") are a large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Probiotic Use In Mothers Limits Eczema In Their Babies] Reference

Fourteen species of autotrophic nannoflagellates, twenty heterotrophic flagellates, forty heterotrophic dinoflagellates, and several metazoans, including polychaetes, amphipods, copepods, euphausids, and fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deception Point]