AMES TEST


Meaning of AMES TEST in English

a test that exposes a strain of bacteria to a chemical compound in order to determine the mutagenic potential of the compound.

[ 1975-80; after U.S. biochemist Bruce N. Ames (born 1928), who developed the test ]

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