Preferred Name

heterotrophy

Synonyms

consumption

Definitions

A trophic process during which a living entity acquires food and energy by consuming another organism or organism part, living or dead.

ID

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ECOCORE_00000011

definition

A trophic process during which a living entity acquires food and energy by consuming another organism or organism part, living or dead.

editor note

This should be axiomatised and made a defined class: any trophic interaction which has as input some organic material (living or dead) that is the only source of carbon or reducing equivalents source is a autotrophic process.

has_exact_synonym

consumption

label

heterotrophy

prefixIRI

ECOCORE:00000011

prefLabel

heterotrophy

term editor

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4366-3088

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2908-3327

subClassOf

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ECOCORE_00000008

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