Cells of the Emerson strain of Chlorella vulgaris become very much enlarged when cultured heterotrophically. The ultrastructure of these giant ... The chief area of difference is within the chloroplast where there is a massive accumulation of starch and little or no synthesis of lamellae under heterotrophic conditions.
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a heterotroph is an organism that depends on other organisms for their food
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do not quote me but; A cell that can not harness energy directly from the environment. An example would be a human: they can not live off of eating dirt or taking energy from the sun. Instead, they consume Autotrophic organisms or other Het...
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Can’t be heat energy because cells are isothermic (constant temperature) ... In heterotrophic cells, the source of energy is nutrients ... In autotrophic cells the source is solar radiation...
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Cells get their energy from complex organic (carbon-rich) molecules which function as food. When you think of food, you tend to view it as a source of materials - carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins and other materials that your body (and its many cells) requires. ... Ecologists refer to heterotrophic organisms as consumers,
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Recent demonstrations of a vesicle-mediated endocytic mechanism for solute uptake in heterotrophic plant cells (Etxeberria et al., 2005a , b ) indirectly imply the existence of at least two separate pathways for sugar uptake.
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An Important Pool of Sucrose Linked to Starch Biosynthesis is Taken up by Endocytosis in Heterotrophic Cells; Plant Cell Physiol., April 1, 2006; 47(4): 447 - 456. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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Phosphorylated non-phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPN) present in heterotrophic cells of wheat (Triticum aestivum) was activated up to 3-fold by MgCl2. The effect was not observed with the non-phosphorylated enzyme found in leaves.
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