Meaning of "prototrophy" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF PROTOTROPHY

prototrophy  [ˈprəʊtəʊˌtrɒfɪ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROTOTROPHY

Prototrophy is a noun.

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WHAT DOES PROTOTROPHY 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 prototrophy in the English dictionary

The definition of prototrophy in the dictionary is the state of being a prototroph.

TRANSLATION OF PROTOTROPHY

Find out the translation of prototrophy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of prototrophy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prototrophy» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 原养
• Translator English - Spanish: prototrofía
• English: prototrophy
• Translator English - Hindi: prototrophy
• Translator English - Arabic: prototrophy
• Translator English - Russian: прототрофию
• Translator English - Portuguese: prototrof
• Translator English - Bengali: prototrophy
• Translator English - French: prototrophic
• Translator English - Malay: Prototrofi
• Translator English - German: -Prototrophie
• Translator English - Japanese: 栄養
• Translator English - Korean: prototrophy
• Translator English - Javanese: Prototrofi
• Translator English - Vietnamese: prototrophy
• Translator English - Tamil: prototrophy
• Translator English - Marathi: प्रोटोप्रोफी
• Translator English - Turkish: prototrophy
• Translator English - Italian: prototrophy
• Translator English - Polish: prototrofię
• Translator English - Ukrainian: прототрофію
• Translator English - Romanian: prototrofie
• Translator English - Greek: πρωτοτροφικότητα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: prototrophy
• Translator English - Swedish: prototrofi
• Translator English - Norwegian: prototropi

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROTOTROPHY»

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Conditions Necessary for Transformation to Prototrophy and ...

This report presents studies on the growth conditions necessary for transformation to prototrophy of 14 auxotrophs of B. licheniformis.

C. G. Leonard, D. K. Mattheis, M. J. Mattheis, 1964

Bacillus Subtilis

The interest in ¢3T stems mainly from the finding that it can grow in thymine auxotrophs and that ¢3T prophage converts thymine auxotrophs of B. subtilis, which lack thymidylate synthetase, to prototrophy (Tucker, 1969). In bacteria infected ...

David Dubnau, 1982

Recent advances in genomic and genetic studies in the Archaea

... resistance Uracil prototrophy pyrE, pyrF pyrE', pyrF', upp+ Pyrimidine-free O — O O Leucine prototrophy IeuB leuB' Leucine-free O — — — Tryptophan prototrophy trpE, trpAB trpE', trpAB' Tryptophan-free O — — O Histidine prototrophy hisA ...

Frank T. Robb

Photochemistry and Photobiology of Nucleic Acids

They reached this conclusion because killing by UV was found to be photoreactivable but not subject to repair and because the same is true only of UV-induced mutations other than those to prototrophy at suppressor loci, which are subject ...

Shih Yi Wang, 2012

Applied Molecular Genetics of Filamentous Fungi

The greatest barrier to transformation of A. nidulans is obtaining cloned genes that can be used to transform strains to prototrophy. There are two approaches for obtaining such genes: the first, used to isolate the amdS gene, is the direct ...

J.R. Kinghorn, Geoffrey Turner, 1992

Phytopathogenic Prokaryotes

Crucial to the assumption that the antibiotic-resistant, partially prototrophic transconjugants had received a portion of the donor chromosome was the demonstration that prototrophy was also restored at one or more unselected chromosomal ...

Mark Mount, 2012

Handbook of Microalgal Culture: Applied Phycology and ...

(strain W2J 3B) Kilian et al., 2011 ARG9 Arginine prototrophy (chloroplast encoded) Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Remacle et al., 2009 PDS Norflurazon resistance (mutated endogenous Chlorella zofingiensis, Haematococcus pluvialis ...

Amos Richmond, Qiang Hu, 2013

Microalgal Biotechnology: Potential and Production

Marker Description Organism Reference ARG7 Arginine prototrophy Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Debuchy et al. 1989) NIT1 Nitrate prototrophy Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Kindle et al. 1989) (NIA 1) nee-1 Oxygen-evolving enhancer ...

Clemens Posten, Christian Walter, 2012

Biotechnology and Biology of Trichoderma

Transformation of a strain with the wild-type marker gene or a heterologous version of it then restores growth leading to prototrophy. Traditionally, due to the availability of only a few genes and established protocols to isolate respective ...

Vijai K. Gupta, Monika Schmoll, Alfredo Herrera-Estrella, 2014

Horizontal Gene Transfer

0 MSD 0 –8 –6 –2 –4 20 10 30 L og tra ns fo rm ation fre qu en c y (t rans f o r m a nts/re c ipi en t) Temperature ( ̊C) FIGURE 7.3 The effect of temperature on the frequency of transformation frequency of HGW1521 (pQM17) to prototrophy by ...

Michael Syvanen, Clarence I. Kado, 2001

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