Foundations in Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259705212
Author: Kathleen Park Talaro, Barry Chess Instructor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 7.L1, Problem 3MCQ
3. An organism that can synthesize all its required organic components from C02 using energy from the sun is a
a. photoautotroph
b. photoheterotroph
c. chemoautotroph
d. chemoheterotroph
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