Descriptive of organisms which are not able to synthesize cell components from carbon
dioxide as sole carbon source. Heterotrophic organisms use preformed oxidizable organic
substrates such as glucose as carbon and energy sources.
Source:
PAC, 1992, 64, 143
(Glossary for chemists of terms used in biotechnology (IUPAC Recommendations 1992))
on page 156
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A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
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