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prototrophies

prototrophies is the plural of prototrophy.

Meaning of prototrophy

Noun

prototrophy (usually uncountable, plural prototrophies)

  1. (usually) The condition of being a prototroph
    • Spontaneous mutations in bacteria are generally reversible. Consequently, in a medium where prototrophy confers no selective advantage, various auxotrophs (and other mutant types) should accumulate until for each type the number is such that the loss- by mutation to prototrophy should equal the...1951 March, K. C. Atwood, “Periodic Selection in Escherichia Coli”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 37, number 3, page 146

Questions about prototrophies

What is prototrophies the plural of?
Prototrophies is the plural of prototrophy.

Words near prototrophies in the dictionary

  1. prototroch
  2. prototrochal
  3. prototrochs
  4. prototroph
  5. prototrophic
  6. prototrophies
  7. prototrophism
  8. prototrophs
  9. prototrophy
  10. prototropic
  11. prototropically

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