Biological and Environmental Research Ontology

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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
alternative term

consumption
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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