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“prototroph”
A microorganism that has the same nutritional requirements as the parent organism: Prototrophs can be bacterial strains that have the same nutritional requirements as the wild-type strain from which they were derived.
A prototroph is an organism or cell capable of synthesizing all of its metabolites from inorganic material, requiring no organic nutrients.
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proto-, prot- +
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tropho-, troph-, -trophy, -trophs, -trophically, -trophic, -trophous
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