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particular strain of Neurospora crassa required citrulline in the medium while the wild type did not. How do you refer to the former ? Why is it so called ?

Answer» Auxotroph, because it needed increased nutrition (G. auxano = to increase), it needed citrulline as it lacked the gane for the enzyme that could catalyse the change of ornithine into citrulline.


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