A term used to indicate an organism that creates their own source of food.

Autotrophic bacteria can take carbon in from the atmosphere through the fixation, reduction and incorporation of carbon dioxide.

a plant that produces its own nourishment

  Self-nourishing organisms capable of utilizing carbon dioxide or carbonates as the sole source of carbon and obtaining energy for life processes from radiant energy or from the oxidation of inorgani [..]

"Self-feeding". Able to synthesize organic compounds from simple inorganic substances (photosynthetic or chemosynthetic).

(Gk: auto=self; trophos=feeder; self-feeding) independent of outside sources of food. Most plants containing chlorophyll are autotrophic, and some bacteria. All other (trophic) organisms depend ultima [..]

can convert energy from non-living forms into biologically useful energy

Capable of utilizing inorganic carbon as the main source of carbon and of obtaining energy for life processes from the oxidation of inorganic elements (chemotrophic) or from radiant energy (phototroph [..]

(adj) of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis

an organism that can meet its cellular energy requirements without eating other organisms. Autotrophic organisms convert inorganic carbon into organic carbon intracellularly (within the cell). This co [..]

Autotrophic organisms are organisms (e.g., plants, algae) that make their own food from their surroundings, such as through photosynthesis.

An organism that produces food from inorganic substances. B

An organism that uses carbon dioxide as its main source of carbon.  This most commonly happens through photosynthesis.

("auto-trofe-ik"): literally means "self-nourishing", means to aquire, or get, energy from sources other than from previously fixed carbon. Often use carbon dioxide [..]

Describes organisms (plants and some bacteria) that use inorganic materials for energy and growth.

Applied to organisms which synthesize organic from inorganic substances.

Designating or typical of organisms that derive carbon for the manufacture of cell mass from inorganic carbon (carbon dioxide).