Relating to or characteristic of chemotrophs; obtaining energy from chemical reactions rather than light or organic matter.
From chemotroph + -ic adjectival suffix. Used to describe the metabolic strategy of organisms that rely on chemical energy sources.
Chemotrophic bacteria are nature's miners—they extract energy from rocks and minerals the way a human extracts energy from food, a completely alien form of survival.
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