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Definition of Auxotrophy
1. Noun. (biology) The inability of a microorganism to synthesize an organic compound required for its growth, often as a result of mutation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Auxotrophy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Auxotrophy
Literary usage of Auxotrophy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Using the techniques of cell fusion, he was able to perform complementation
analysis on several mutations involving auxotrophy for the amino acid glycine. ..."
2. Gene Expression in Algae and Fungi Including Yeast: Bibliography January by Janet Saunders, Robert D. Warmbrodt (2001)
"... Choline; Myo-inositol; Biosynthesis Abstract: A dominant, single nuclear gene
mutation, CSE1, caused inositol auxotrophy in yeast cells. ..."
3. Ensuring an Infectious Disease Workforce: Education and Training Needs for by Stacey Knobler (2006)
"... or induction to auxotrophy in bacteria. Inactivation The second set of strategies
is the inactivated organism or subunit path. In the late 19th century, ..."
4. Biotechnology: Plant Nutrition: A Bibliography, January 1988-April 1993 by Janet Saunders (1994)
"... nodules that expressed late nodulin genes, suggesting that it is not auxotrophy
per se that causes the hemA mutants to elicit Bar- or empty nodules. ..."
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