OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 1861

male

/meɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
macho • masculino
Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
male writers
the leading male and female singers
macho
Having the F factor; able to impart DNA into another bacterium which does not have the F factor (a female).
Furthermore, male bacteria with fi + R factors, which inhibit the function of F (fi fertility inhibition) (Watanabe et al., 1964a), cannot form specific cell pairs at high frequenc…
Male bacteria having the sex factor, also known as the F or "fertility" factor, are termed P if the sex factor exists extrachromosomally. F+ bacteria can only conjugate with F, the…
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