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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Auxotrophy is the
inability of an organism to synthesize a particular organic compound
required for its growth (as defined by IUPAC). An auxotroph is an
organism that displays this characteristic; auxotrophic is the
corresponding adjective. Auxotrophy is the opposite of prototrophy,
which is characterized by the ability to synthesize all the compounds
that the parent organism could.
