Auxotrophic

What do we mean by auxotrophic?

Requiring one or more specific substances for growth and metabolism that the parental organism was able to synthesize on its own. Used with respect to organisms, such as strains of bacteria, algae, or fungi, that can no longer synthesize certain growth factors because of mutational changes. adjective

Describing a strain of organism that requires a specific metabolic substance that the parent organism was able to synthesize by itself adjective

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Words that are spelled similarly to auxotrophic:
auxotrophic, autotrophic, amyotrophic, autotropic, allotrophic, mixotrophic, auxotroph, auxotrophs, auxotrophy, abiotrophic.

Adjectives that are often used to describe auxotrophic:
bacteria.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective auxotrophic:
mutants, strains, markers, mutations, cells, bacteria, strain, mutant, requirements, mutation, organisms, colonies, parents, complementation, lines, alleles, derivatives, selection, diploids, vaccines, phenotypes, sfl124, salmonella, cultures, genes, variants, clones, marker, shigella, medium, recipients, segregants, recombinants, revertants, yeast.

Words that sound like auxotrophic:
autotrophic, eutrophic, atrophic, strophic, psychotropic, skeeter hawk, sonatrach, socket wrench, solid rock, soccer kick.