Nutritional Mutants in Neurospora Can Be "Cured" by Treating the Medium

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Essay

Nutritional mutants in Neurospora can be "cured" by treating the medium with substances in the defective metabolic pathway.What determines whether the mutant strain auxotroph)is "cured" by a particular substance?

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Definitions:

Reflexive Stimulus

A stimulus that automatically elicits a reflex action, such as pulling your hand away from a hot surface without thinking.

Conditioned Stimulus

An initially neutral cue that becomes capable of provoking a conditioned response after being linked with an unconditioned stimulus.

UCS

An acronym for Unconditioned Stimulus, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a reflexive response without prior learning.

UCR

Unconditioned Response, which is an automatic and involuntary reaction to a stimulus that occurs naturally without any prior learning or conditioning.