prototrophic

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adjective

Of or pertaining to a prototroph or to prototrophy.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectiveprototrophic (comparative more prototrophic, superlative most prototrophic)

comparative more prototrophic · superlative most prototrophic

  1. biologyOf or pertaining to a prototroph or to prototrophy.

    The first two, fast-growing species, were found to be more prototrophic than the last two, slowly growing species.

    1969, Nuclear Science Abstracts, Volume 23, Issues 13-15, United States Atomic Energy Commission, page 2526
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    Intrastrain fusions resulted in fully prototrophic progeny that were very similar in appearance and growth rate to the original prototrophic parental strain (Stasz et al., 1988a, 1989).

    1998, G. E. Harman, C. K. Hayes, K. L. Ondik, “11: Asexual genetics in Trichoderma and Gliocladium: Mechanisms and implications”, in Gary E. Harman, C. P. Kubicek, editors, Trichoderma And Gliocladium: Volume 1, Taylor & Francis, page 255

    2021, Amaia Zúñiga-Ripa, et al., The fast-growing Brucella suis Biovar 5..., Axel Cloeckaert, Michel Stanislas Zygmunt, Nieves Vizcaino, Adrian Whatmore, Holger C. Scholz (editors), Pathogenomics of the Genus Brucella and Beyond, Frontiers Media (Frontiers Open Access E-books), page 177, These differences suggested that B. suis 513 is more prototrophic than B. abortus 2308W (see section “Discussion”), and thus we examined the vitamin requirements of B. suis 513.

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Translations

French prototrophe
  • prototropheof or pertaining to a prototroph or to prototrophy
Irish prótatrófach
  • prótatrófachof or pertaining to a prototroph or to prototrophy
Russian прототро́фный
  • прототро́фный (prototrófnyj)of or pertaining to a prototroph or to prototrophy

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