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Definition of Chemosynthesis
1. Noun. Synthesis of carbohydrate from carbon dioxide and water; limited to certain bacteria and fungi.
Definition of Chemosynthesis
1. n. Synthesis of organic compounds by energy derived from chemical changes or reactions. Chemosynthesis of carbohydrates occurs in the nitrite bacteria through the oxidation of ammonia to nitrous acid, and in the nitrate bacteria through the conversion of nitrous into nitric acid.
Definition of Chemosynthesis
1. Noun. the production of carbohydrates and other compounds from simple compounds such as carbon dioxide, using the oxidation of chemical nutrients as a source of energy rather than sunlight; it is limited to certain bacteria and fungi ¹
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Definition of Chemosynthesis
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Medical Definition of Chemosynthesis
1. The use of inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide to make carbohydrates from the energy released by chemical reactions. Compare: photosynthesis. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chemosynthesis
Literary usage of Chemosynthesis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Laboratory Course in Plant Physiology by William Francis Ganong (1908)
"chemosynthesis. In his study of carbon fixation through photosynthesis, the
student must be impressed by the importance of the kinetic energy of light in ..."
2. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"This mode of construction may be termed chemosynthesis in contrast with ...
We shall recur to chemosynthesis later on, but at the present moment, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science by Indiana Academy of Science (1922)
"Just as numerous questions presented themselves concerning photosynthesis, we
also have the field of chemosynthesis with many unsolved problems. ..."
4. Foundations of Biology by Lorande Loss Woodruff (1922)
"chemosynthesis. Manufacture (synthesis) of food material from water and carbon
dioxide, through energy derived from chemical changes involving oxidation ..."
5. Science and Society in Early America: Essays in Honor of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. by Randolph Shipley Klein (1986)
"... and its active nitrogen fixation, 1885. Worked out the morphology of iron and
sulfur bacteria and their life cycles, 1887. Microbial chemosynthesis and ..."
6. Science and Society in Early America: Essays in Honor of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. by Randolph SHIPLEY KLEIN (1986)
"... and its active nitrogen fixation, 1885. Worked out the morphology of iron and
sulfur bacteria and their life cycles, 1887. Microbial chemosynthesis and ..."
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