| 释义 |
minimal medium minimal medium A term of art for a culture medium which provides the minimum requirements (e.g., inorganic salts, but no amino acids) needed for growth of a particular bacterium or cell.minimal medium a food source containing the minimum set of nutrients required for growth of the wild-type of a particular species. These are carbon, inorganic salts and water. Such media are used in screening for AUXOTROPHS. See ONE GENE/ONE ENZYME HYPOTHESIS. |