Researchers investigate how microbes that can both eat and photosynthesize might evolve in a changing environment

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Nov 7, 2022, 8:36 pm805 ptsInteresting
A quick survey of life on Earth will usually yield two groups: those that produce their own nutrients and those that must get them from other lifeforms. Plants generally fall into the first category, called autotrophs, while animals and fungi are almost exclusively the second, heterotrophs. But digging deeper…

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