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crabtree effect

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.96 in modern English

Syllables
crab-tree -ef-fect
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The phenomenon whereby the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, produces ethanol in aerobic conditions at high external glucose concentrations rather than aerobically producing biomass via the tricarboxylic acid cycle as it's common in most yeasts.

Etymology

Named after biologist Herbert Grace Crabtree, whose study of the carbohydrate metabolism of tumours led the discovery of the effect.

Inflected Forms

Crabtree effects (plural)

Questions

What does crabtree effect mean?
The phenomenon whereby the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, produces ethanol in aerobic conditions at high external glucose concentrations rather than aerobically producing biomass via the tricarboxylic acid cycle as it's common in most yeasts.
Where does crabtree effect come from?
Named after biologist Herbert Grace Crabtree, whose study of the carbohydrate metabolism of tumours led the discovery of the effect.

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