Meanings
noungnotobiology (uncountable)
- uncountablebiologyThe study of animals in a microbe-free environment.
Gnotobiology allows a more exact exploration of ecology by separating macrobes from microbes and providing an experimental base for qualitative and quantitative understanding of the interaction of microbes in and with the host.
1970 November, TD Luckey, “Gnotobiology is ecology”, in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, volume 23, number 11, page 1533
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