Cameroon (/ËkÃ¦mÉËruËn/; French: Cameroun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (French: RÃ©publique du Cameroun), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the Bight of Bonny, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean.
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word photoautotroph. Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: photoautotroph(Noun) an organism, such as all green plants, that can synthesize its own food from inorganic material using light as a source of energy.
exists and is an alternate of . Phototrophs are the organisms that carry out photosynthesis to acquire energy. They use the energy from sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into organic material to be utilized in cellular functions such as biosynthesis and respiration. Most phototrophs are autotrophs, also known as photoautotrophs, and can fix carbon. They can be contrasted with chemoautotrophs that obtain their energy by the oxidation of electron donors in their environments. Photoheterotrophs produce ATP through photophosphorylation but use organic compounds to build structures.