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auxotrophic definition

auxo·trophic (ôk′sə träf′ik)

adjective

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

Etymology: < Gr auxein, to increase + -trophic

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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