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What (who) is axenic cultivation - definition
MICROBIOLOGICAL CULTURE WITH ONLY A SINGLE SPECIES OR STRAIN OF ORGANISM
Axenic culture
Axenic
In biology, axenic (, ) describes the state of a culture in which only a single species, variety, or strain of organism is present and entirely free of all other contaminating organisms. The earliest axenic cultures were of bacteria or unicellular eukaryotes, but axenic cultures of many multicellular organisms are also possible.
axenic
[e?'z?n?k]
¦ adjective Biology (of a culture) free from living organisms other than the species required.
Derivatives
axenically adverb
Origin
1940s: from a- 'not' + Gk xenikos 'alien, strange' + -ic.
cultivation
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Cultivate; Cultivated; Cultivation (disambiguation)
see cultivate
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Axenic
In biology, axenic (, ) describes the state of a culture in which only a single species, variety, or strain of organism is present and entirely free of all other contaminating organisms. The earliest axenic cultures were of bacteria or unicellular eukaryotes, but axenic cultures of many multicellular organisms are also possible. Axenic culture is an important tool for the study of symbiotic and parasitic organisms in a controlled environment.
