Principle of Inheritance and VariationHard
Question
A nutritionally wild type organism, which does not require any additional growth supplement is known as
Options
A.phenotype
B.holotype
C.auxotroph
D.prototroph
Solution
An organism (such as bacterium) that will grow on a minimal medium is called a prototroph while a ′mutant′ of it that will not grow on a minimal medium but requires the addition of some compound like an amino acid or vitamin is called auxotroph.
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