noun
- a substance or organism that participates in conjugation, especially in bacterial reproduction or chemical bonding
Usage: technical; biology; chemistry
Examples
- In bacterial conjugation, the donor cell acts as one conjugant while the recipient cell serves as the other.
- The two conjugants exchange genetic material through a pilus during the mating process.
- Researchers studied how conjugants transfer plasmids between different bacterial strains.
- Each conjugant in the reaction mixture contributed its own chemical properties to the final compound.