ALL meanings of auxotrophic
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A a - adjective auxotrophic designating or of a mutant organism requiring more nutritional substances than its prototrophic parent because it has lost the ability to make a certain enzyme 3
- noun auxotrophic a mutant organism, especially a microorganism, that has a nutritional requirement not shared by the parent organism. Compare prototroph (def 1). 1
- adjective auxotrophic (biology) Describing a strain of organism that requires a specific metabolic substance that the parent organism was able to synthesize by itself. 0