auxotrophic
Adjective
Meaning
auxotrophic (comparative more auxotrophic, superlative most auxotrophic)
(biology) Describing a strain of organism that requires a specific metabolic substance that the parent organism was able to synthesize by itself
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Examples
Instead, the use of auxotrophic bacterial strains (and function-replacement plasmids) is preferred.
These strains are auxotrophic mutants, i.e. they require histidine for growth, but cannot produce it.