heterotroph

organism that ingests or absorbs organic carbon (rather than fix carbon from inorganic sources such as carbon dioxide) in order to be able to produce energy
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heterotroph

Summary

heterotroph is a primary nutritional group[1]. heterotroph draws 331 Wikipedia views per month (primary_nutritional_group category, ranking #3 of 9).[2]

Key Facts

  • heterotroph's instance of is recorded as primary nutritional group[3].
  • heterotroph's instance of is recorded as ecological concept[4].
  • heterotroph's follows is recorded as autotroph[5].
  • heterotroph's subclass of is recorded as organism[6].
  • heterotroph's Commons category is recorded as Heterotrophs[7].
  • heterotroph's opposite of is recorded as autotroph[8].
  • heterotroph's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 31378[9].
  • heterotroph's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0p11x[10].
  • heterotroph's described at URL is recorded as https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/heterotrophs/[11].
  • heterotroph's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/heterotroph[12].
  • heterotroph's properties for this type is recorded as P1034[13].
  • heterotroph's uses is recorded as heterotrophic nutrition[14].
  • heterotroph's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as autotrophie-et-heterotrophie[15].
  • heterotroph's NE.se ID is recorded as heterotrofi[16].
  • heterotroph's Cultureel Woordenboek ID is recorded as levenswetenschappen-en-geneeskunde/heterotroof[17].
  • heterotroph's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as heterotrophs[18].
  • heterotroph's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as heterotrofe_organismer[19].
  • heterotroph's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 009557[20].
  • heterotroph's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 35195898[21].
  • heterotroph's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3911485[22].
  • heterotroph's Lex ID is recorded as heterotrof[23].
  • heterotroph's KBpedia ID is recorded as Heterotroph[24].
  • heterotroph's Encyclopaedia Beliana ID is recorded as heterotrofny-organizmus[25].
  • heterotroph's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 00006024-n[26].
  • heterotroph's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C35195898[27].

Why It Matters

heterotroph draws 331 Wikipedia views per month (primary_nutritional_group category, ranking #3 of 9).[2] heterotroph has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] heterotroph is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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