| 释义 |
anoxygenic, a. Biol.|æˌnɒksɪˈdʒɛnɪk|
[an- 10 + oxygenic a.]
That lacks or does not produce oxygen; spec. designating or pertaining to a type of photosynthesis, occurring in certain bacteria, which does not generate oxygen.
1975Jrnl. Bacteriol. CXXIII. 860/2 In addition to the anoxygenic photosynthesis, O. limnetica is capable of oxygenic photosynthesis and can readily shift from one to the other. 1976Nature 22 Jan. 176/2 Everyone seemed to agree with Siever that the earliest Archaean atmosphere was anoxygenic. 1986M. Kogut tr. Schlegel's Gen. Microbiol. ii. 70 Anoxygenic phototrophs..grow in the anaerobic zone. Ibid. xii. 369 The photosynthetic bacteria that carry out anoxygenic photosynthesis have been divided into two large groups: the purple bacteria..and the green bacteria. |