heterotrophic bacteria
collocation in Englishmeaningsofheterotrophicandbacteria
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heterotrophic
adjective
uk/ˌhet.ər.əˈtrəʊ.fɪk/us/ˌhet̬.ɚ.əˈtroʊ.fɪk/
(of a living thing) getting its food from other plants or animals, or relating to such ...
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bacteria
noun
uk/bækˈtɪə.ri.ə/us/bækˈtɪr.i.ə/
plural ...
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Here we describe the colonization of heavily shocked gneiss byheterotrophicbacteriain a natural setting.
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These smallest fabric elements most likely are formed by the early cementation of a complex consortium of mat-building cyanobacteria,heterotrophicbacteriaand eucaryotic algae.
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Isolation and identification ofheterotrophicbacteria12 samples of shocked gneiss and of host breccia were broken open inside sterile bags using a rock hammer.
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Theheterotrophicbacteriapopulation of both soils clearly have only a limited ability to grow under the strict oligotrophic conditions imposed.
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Serial dilution plating methods on media for the cultivation ofheterotrophicbacteriawere employed.
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The source of water and of organic nutrients for the sparse population ofheterotrophicbacteriapresent in the soil is still unknown.
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However, we suspect that such nutrients are deposited from meltwater into impact-generated cavities, which would encourage endolithicheterotrophicbacteriato inhabit them.
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In pristine soils, hydrocarbon-utilising micro-organisms typically represent less than 2% of the total number ofheterotrophicbacteria.
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From north to south there is an increase in available water and in this study we have examined the presence and diversity of culturableheterotrophicbacteriaalong this moisture gradient.
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Zacheus et al. (2001), on the other hand, reported that the viable count ofheterotrophicbacteriain decades-old soft pipe deposits was not affected by the origin of the water.
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Some of the more commonly used micro-organisms are: bacillus, coccus, spirillum as well asheterotrophicbacteriawhich all play important roles in biological degradation process.
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Under a few millimeters of waterheterotrophicbacteriametabolize and consume oxygen.
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Significantly,heterotrophicbacteriawere also found to markedly increase in number in the iron-induced blooms.
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First, it occurs without carbon loss, and makes organic matter more efficiently available to phagotrophic organisms, rather than onlyheterotrophicbacteria.
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Oil fly larvae contain about 200,000heterotrophicbacteria, which have been of interest to scientists searching for microorganisms or enzymes that function in an organic solvent environment.
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With the loss of photosynthetic plants covering and cooling the surface of the soil, the infrared energy penetrates the soil heating it up and causing a rise inheterotrophicbacteria.
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Heterotrophicbacteriainclude parasitic types.
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