The theme song line "autotrophs began to drool," rather than a joke, might reflect a fairly common mistake. 'Troph' refers to source of nourishment, 'autotroph' means self feeding or photosynthetic. 'Trop' refers to movement, chemotrops move toward specific chemicals and phototrops move toward light. Some folks, even in the sciences, mix a nonexistent word 'autotrop' (suggesting self moving) and 'autotroph' to imply animal.
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05-03-2025 alle ore 08:32