2. Adjective. That lives within a body or cells of another organism. Forming an endosymbiosis. ¹
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Definition of Endosymbiotic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Endosymbiotic
Literary usage of Endosymbiotic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dis-Integrating Multiculturalismby Mute by Mute (2006)
"Footnotes 1 Editor's note: The endosymbiotic theory concerns the origins ...
The endosymbiotic hypothesis was fleshed out and popularized by Lynn Margulis. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"What termites have accomplished by their endosymbiotic association with
cellulose-degrading microorganisms, the attine ants have achieved through their ..."
3. Biotechnology: Plant Nutrition: A Bibliography, January 1988-April 1993 by Janet Saunders (1994)
"... we studied the regulation of trc gene expression in free-living and in
endosymbiotic bacteria using Escherichia coli lacZ as a reporter gene. ..."