Alternative form of auxotrophic [(biology) Describing a strain of organism that requires a specific metabolic substance that the parent organism was able to synthesize by itself]
(biology, of a plant species) adapted to grow preferentially in soils containing a higher than normal concentration of a particular metal (such as zinc or copper)
principally, oxygenic photosynthesis, any process by which plants and algae convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.
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