prototrophic

Having the same metabolic capabilities and nutritional requirements as the wild type parent strain.

Requiring for growth only simple inorganic substances, as carbon dioxid and ammonia or nitrous acid and a few mineral salts: a term used by A. Fischer to designate a group of nitrifying bacteria characterized by a very primitive metabolism. Compare metatrophic and paratrophic.

Of or pertaining to a prototroph or to prototrophy