Bradytroph
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bradytroph-0-10122119
title:
Bradytroph
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A bradytroph is a strain of an organism that exhibits slow growth in the absence of an external source of a particular metabolite. This is usually due to a defect in an enzyme required in the metabolic pathway producing this chemical. Such defects are the result of mutations in the genes encoding these enzymes. As the organism can still produce small amounts of the chemical, the mutation is not lethal. In these bradytroph strains, rapid growth occurs when the chemical is present in the cell's gr
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description:
Strain of an organism exhibiting slow growth
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradytroph
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date modified:
2023-10-20T04:35:53Z
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