Definition of Prototrophy

1. [n -PHIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prototrophy

protosyntactic
protosyntactical
protosyntax
prototheme
protothemes
prototherian
prototherians
protothread
protothreads
prototile
prototiles
prototroph
prototrophic
prototrophies
prototrophs
prototrophy (current term)
prototropic
prototropically
prototropy
prototypal
prototype
prototyped
prototyper
prototypers
prototypes
prototypic
prototypical
prototypicality
prototypically
prototyping

Literary usage of Prototrophy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"(4) prototrophy, the wet nurse relationship, as in the lichen Lecidea intumescent, which eventually gets its nourishment by means of a ..."

2. Ending the War Metaphor: The Changing Agenda for Unraveling the Host-Microbe by Forum on Microbial Threats, Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (2006)
"... punne auxotroph Selection for tetracycline resistance Selection for purine prototrophy FIGURE 2-2 Schematic depiction of the first strategies to select ..."

3. Biotechnology: Ti-Plasmids and Other Plan Vectors: Bibliography January 1993 by Raymond Dobert (1996)
"... was used to transform the P. chrysosporium ade2 strain to adenine prototrophy with selection on 5-fluoroorotic acid for inactiva- tion of the ura3 gene. ..."

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