Holophytic Definition

Holophytic Sentence Examples

• Typical plants are holophytic, that is, they obtain their food substances from purely mineral sources.

• Therefore all life in the sea (as on land) depends on the power which the holophytic organisms possess of synthesizing mineral substances into organized tissues.

• Nutrition is of course holozoic or saprophytic in the colourless forms, holophytic in the coloured; but these divergent methods are exhibited by different species of the same genus, or even by individuals of one and the same species under different conditions.