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Meaning of "auxotrophic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AUXOTROPHIC

auxotrophic  [ˌɔːksəˈtrɒfɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AUXOTROPHIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Auxotrophic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES AUXOTROPHIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Auxotrophy

Auxotrophy is the inability of an organism to synthesize a particular organic compound required for its growth. An auxotroph is an organism that displays this characteristic; auxotrophic is the corresponding adjective. Auxotrophy is the opposite of prototrophy, which is characterized by the ability to synthesize all the compounds needed for growth. The method of replica plating implemented by Esther Lederberg included auxotrophs that were temperature-sensitive; that is, their ability to synthesize was temperature-dependent. Multiple auxotrophs can also coexist at the same time, within the same organism. In genetics, a strain is said to be auxotrophic if it carries a mutation that renders it unable to synthesize an essential compound. For example, a yeast mutant with an inactivated uracil synthesis pathway gene is a uracil auxotroph. Such a strain is unable to synthesize uracil and will only be able to grow if uracil can be taken up from the environment. This is the opposite of a uracil prototroph, or in this case a wild-type strain, which can still grow in the absence of uracil.

Definition of auxotrophic in the English dictionary

The definition of auxotrophic in the dictionary is having nutritional requirements additional to those of the normal organism.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AUXOTROPHIC


adrenocorticotrophic
əˌdriːnəʊˌkɔːtəkəʊˈtrɒfɪk
atrophic
əˈtrɒfɪk
autotrophic
ˌɔːtəˈtrɒfɪk
chemoheterotrophic
ˌkiːməʊˌhɛtərəʊˈtrɒfɪk
dystrophic
dɪsˈtrɒfɪk
eutrophic
juːˈtrɒfɪk
gonadotrophic
ˌɡɒnədəʊˈtrɒfɪk
heterotrophic
ˌhɛtərəʊˈtrɒfɪk
hypertrophic
ˌhaɪpəˈtrɒfɪk
lymphotrophic
ˌlɪmfəˈtrɒfɪk
mesotrophic
ˌmɛsəʊˈtrɒfɪk
mycotrophic
ˌmaɪkəʊˈtrɒfɪk
necrotrophic
ˌnɛkrəʊˈtrɒfɪk
neurotrophic
ˌnjʊərəˈtrɒfɪk
oligotrophic
ˌɒlɪɡəʊˈtrɒfɪk
photoautotrophic
ˌfəʊtəʊˌɔːtəʊˈtrɒfɪk
phototrophic
ˌfəʊtəʊˈtrɒfɪk
prototrophic
ˌprəʊtəˈtrɒfɪk
trophic
ˈtrɒfɪk
zootrophic
ˌzəʊəˈtrɒfɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AUXOTROPHIC

auxanometer
Auxerre
auxesis
auxetic
auxiliaries
auxiliary
auxiliary note
auxiliary police
auxiliary power unit
auxiliary rotor
auxiliary verb
auxin
auxinic
auxochrome
auxocyte
auxometer
auxospore
auxotonic
auxotroph
auxotrophy

WORDS THAT END LIKE AUXOTROPHIC

anthroposophic
antistrophic
apostrophic
catastrophic
corticotrophic
diastrophic
geographic
geostrophic
heterostrophic
mixotrophic
monostrophic
octastrophic
pansophic
philosophic
polytrophic
saprotrophic
somatotrophic
strophic
theosophic
thyrotrophic
unphilosophic

Synonyms and antonyms of auxotrophic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «auxotrophic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AUXOTROPHIC

Find out the translation of auxotrophic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of auxotrophic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «auxotrophic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

营养缺陷
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

auxotrófico
570 millions of speakers

English

auxotrophic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

auxotrophic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عونية التغذي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ауксотрофный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

auxotrófica
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

auxotrophic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

auxotrophe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Auxotrophic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

auxotrophen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

栄養要求性の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

영양 요
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Auxotrophic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

auxotrophic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

auxotrophic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Auxotrophic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

oksotropık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

auxotrophic
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

auksotroficzny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ауксотрофності
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

auxotrofică
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυξοτροφικοί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

auxotrophic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

auxotrof
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

auxotrop
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of auxotrophic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AUXOTROPHIC»

The term «auxotrophic» is normally little used and occupies the 110.936 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AUXOTROPHIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «auxotrophic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «auxotrophic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about auxotrophic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AUXOTROPHIC»

Discover the use of auxotrophic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to auxotrophic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Microbial Genetics
IDENTIFICATION OF NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS Auxotrophic mutants can be identified by testing for growth on rich and minimal agar. Most auxotrophic mutants can grow on rich agar because it contains most of the amino acids, ...
Stanley R. Maloy, John E. Cronan, David Freifelder, 1994
2
Food Biotechnology: Microorganisms
Two basic types of selectable markers are commonly used: (1) auxotrophic markers, and (2) dominant selectable markers. In simple terms, the former complements a host genetic defect in an essential bio- synthetic pathway, while the latter ...
Y. H. Hui, PhD, George G. Khachatourians, 1995
3
Experimental Techniques in Bacterial Genetics
Auxotrophic mutants can be easily screened for their nutritional requirements by testing for growth on crossed-pool plates (Davis, Botstein, and Roth, 1980). Eleven pools contain the common auxotrophic supplements that account for most of ...
Stanley R. Maloy, 1990
4
Biotechnology and Biology of Trichoderma
Vijai K. Gupta, Monika Schmoll, Alfredo Herrera-Estrella, R. S. Upadhyay, Irina Druzhinina, Maria Tuohy. AUXOTROPHIC AND DOMINANT SELECTION MARKERS Selection markers can be regarded as reporters which indicate a successful ...
Vijai K. Gupta, Monika Schmoll, Alfredo Herrera-Estrella, 2014
5
Genetics and Breeding of Edible Mushrooms
Auxotrophic Markers The first unambiguous markers were auxotrophic mutations used by Raper et al. (1972) and Elliott (1972, 1985) in establishing the basic facts of the life cycle of A. bisporus. Auxotrophic strains, most of which were ...
A.C. Chang, 1992
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Guide to Yeast Genetics and Molecular Cell Biology
Second, heterologous auxotrophic markers can be used that complement an S. cerevisiae auxotrophic mutation, but that have sufficient nucleotide divergence to avoid homologous recombination with the correspondingS. cerevisiaegene.
‎2002
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Mushrooms: Cultivation, Nutritional Value, Medicinal Effect, ...
The mutagenic treatment of the conidia of an auxotrophic mutant. • The plating of the conidia onto minimal medium, which is then overlaid with more minimal medium. • During a period of incubation the conidia bearing the original single ...
Philip G. Miles, Shu-Ting Chang, 2004
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The Fungal Community: Its Organization and Role in the ...
and. Sands. Fungal genus Phenotypie alteration References Bolrytis Fungicide resistant Sozzi and Gessler, 1980 Cochliobolus Fungicide resistant Leach et al., 1982 Morphological Tinline, 1961, 1988 Auxotrophic Yoder, 1988 Hypervirulence ...
John Dighton, James White, Peter Oudemans, 1992
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Advanced Bacterial Genetics: Use of Transposons and Phage ...
Confirm the linkage and co‐transduction frequency by growing phage P22 HTinton the tetracycline‐resistant prototrophic transductants, and performing a backcross into the original auxotrophic mutant strain. A simple control to confirm that the ...
‎2007
10
Advances in Leptospiraceae Research and Application: 2012 ...
Investigators publish new data in the report 'Stable expression of Leptospira interrogans antigens in auxotrophic Mycobacterium bovis BCG.' “Mycobacterium bovis BCG has been proposed as an effective live vector for multivalent vaccines.
‎2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AUXOTROPHIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term auxotrophic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ecophysiology of an uncultivated lineage of Aigarchaeota from an …
... and might be related to metabolite sharing and/or auxotrophic requirements of C. aerorheumensis. FISH probes targeting Thermocrinis spp., ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
2
An overproduction of astellolides induced by genetic disruption of …
... 3′-region was amplified using X-RU and X-RL primers, and an auxotrophic marker pyrG was amplified using pyrG-U and pyrG-L primers. «Nature.com, Jun 15»
3
Identification and functional characterization of a novel arginine …
Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease, is auxotrophic for arginine. It obtains this amino acid from the host through ... «7thSpace Interactive, Jun 15»
4
No-Hangover Red Wine: Genetic Engineering Increases Resveratrol …
Construction of a quadruple auxotrophic mutant of an industrial polyploid saccharomyces cerevisiae strain by using RNA-guided Cas9 ... «Medical Daily, Mar 15»
5
Frankenbug Failsafe Promises Synbio Safety
These auxotrophic GROs possess alternative genetic codes that impart genetic isolation by impeding horizontal gene transfer and now depend ... «Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, Jan 15»
6
Yeast 2.0: Is a Custom-Built Yeast in Our Winemaking Future?
"These are lab-adapted strains that have an auxotrophic mutation," said Boeke. An auxotrophic mutation means an organism cannot synthesize ... «Wine Spectator, Aug 14»
7
Why Skolnick and Gao (2013) Doesn't Refute ID Research on the …
They used 104 auxotrophic E. coli strains, each with a single-gene knockout, and a plasmid library in which all E. coli genes are individually ... «Discovery Institute, Jul 13»
8
Preclinical studies show bladder cancers, mesotheliomas respond …
... may possibly be employed as a potential biomarker for optimizing the efficacy of ADI-PEG 20 in the treatment of arginine auxotrophic cancers ... «News-Medical.net, Apr 13»
9
A novel method for genetic transformation of yeast cells using …
For the auxotrophic strains, amino acids L-leucine, L-uracil, L-histidine, L-lysine (Sigma-Aldrich, USA) were added to a final concentration of 40 mg/L. «BioTechniques.com, Jan 13»
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NCBI ROFL: Pilot study of the effect of diet on the mutagenicity of …
Aqueous faecal extracts were prepared and assayed for auxotrophic growth-enhancement and bacterial mutagenicity (using fluctuation tests ... «Discover Magazine, Oct 12»

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