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Classifying a Prokaryote by Its Nutritional Category

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This procedure classifies three unfamiliar prokaryote descriptions into one of the four nutritional categories by identifying each organism's energy source and carbon source in turn.

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Confusing "auto" with an energy source, rather than a carbon source, is the most common sorting error— the prefix pair auto/hetero names carbon, and photo/chemo names energy, independently of each other.

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