Difference between Photoheterotroph and Photoautotroph
What is the difference between Photoheterotroph and Photoautotroph?
Photoheterotroph as a noun is a heterotrophic organism that uses light for energy but cannot use carbon dioxide as its sole carbon source and thus uses organic compounds from the environment. while Photoautotroph as a noun is an organism, such as all green plants, that can synthesize its own food from inorganic material using light as a source of energy
Photoheterotroph
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A heterotrophic organism that uses light for energy but cannot use carbon dioxide as its sole carbon source and thus uses organic compounds from the environment.
Photoautotroph
Part of speech: noun
Definition: an organism, such as all green plants, that can synthesize its own food from inorganic material using light as a source of energy
We hope you now know whether to use Photoheterotroph or Photoautotroph in your sentence.