Culture

Culture as civilization
Many people today use a conception of "culture" that developed in Europe during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Full article >>>

Cancer Cells in Culture
Both normal cells and cancer cells can be cultured in vitro in the laboratory. However, they behave quite differently.
Full article >>>

Culture and sport
While having a large and vibrant arts and cultural life (notably including the yearly Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival), ...
Full article >>>

Culture and society consist of values, social norms, and artifacts. A culture's values define what it holds to be important or ethical. Closely linked are norms, expectations of how people ought to behave, bound by tradition.
Full article >>>

Culture-independent studies have shown that microbial consortia in natural environments are incredibly diverse and are dominated by bacteria and archaea substantially different from microbes maintained in pure laboratory cultures.
Full article >>>

A culture medium that is enriched with a particular substance to allow the growth of particular strains of organisms.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ...
Full article >>>

Agriculture Network Information Center
AIIM
Association for Information and Image Management ...
Full article >>>

monoculture
Cultivation of large land areas with a single plant variety.
monoecious ...
Full article >>>

monoculture The growth of only one species in a given area; such as a cornfield or other agricultural field.
Full article >>>

aquaculture The farming of marine and freshwater organisms. Also see mariculture.
aquifer Underground water reservoir.
aquifers Porous, water-bearing layers of sand, gravel, and rock below the earth's surface; reservoirs for groundwater.
Full article >>>

Pure culture of microorganisms composed of the descendants of a single cell.
Related Terms: Progeny
The subsequent generation following a mating or crossing of parents; offspring.
Full article >>>

Batch culture
Growth of bacteria in a fixed volume of liquid medium in a closed vessel, with no additions or removals made during the period of incubation.
Full article >>>

They next cultured two strains of flies that had chosen opposite habitats. One strain emerged early, flew upward and was attracted to dark and acetaldehyde. The other emerged late, flew downward and was attracted to light and ethanol.
Full article >>>

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2001. Evaluation of allergenicity of benetically modified foods, Report of a Joint FAO/ WHO Expert Consultation on Allergenicity of Food Derived from Biotechnology 22-25 Jan 2001.
Full article >>>

Celartia Cell Culture
Cell culture media and forums.
Droplet - Microscopy of the Protozoa
Enter the world of the fascinating and immensely diverse group of single cellular organisms. Includes images, descriptions, taxonomy, and web resources.
Full article >>>

In a laboratory culture dish, normal cells grow in a single layer on the bottom but cancer cells continue to grow and produce a thick mass of cells.
Lack Anchorage Dependence
Normal cells cling to neighboring cells, cancer cells do not.
Full article >>>

Mammalian cells in culture are UV-irradiated. After various times, DNA is prepared and one aliquot treated with T4 endonuclease which will nick DNA at positions of thymine dimers. The DNA is restricted and denatured.
Full article >>>

Culture. A particular kind of organism growing in a laboratory medium. Cyclic AMP (cyclic adenosine monophosphate).
Full article >>>

tissue culture Method by which cells derived from multicellular organisms are grown in liquid media. titration curve A plot of the pH versus the equivalents of acid or base added during titration of a base or an acid. tocopherols Forms of vitamin E.
Full article >>>

Cultured astrocytes and macrophages activated (by cytokines and endotoxin) to express the inducible form of NO synthase produced up to 1 μM NO, ...
Full article >>>

Stable transfection: A form of transfection experiment designed to produce permanent lines of cultured cells with a new gene inserted into their genome. Usually this is done by linking the desired gene with a "selectable" gene, i.e.
Full article >>>

For tissue culture cells, cells transfected with foreign DNA are transformed if their exhibit morphology changes such as rounded cell bodies, loss of contact inhibition, and formation of plaques.
Full article >>>

In flattened, immobile cells in culture, actin filaments are usually organized as straight coarse bundles that radiate throughout the cell. These filamentous bundles are called 'stress' of 'sheath' fibres.
Full article >>>

Statewide IPM Program, Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California
All contents copyright 2003 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Full article >>>

log (logarithmic) phase
The exponential phase of growth in a bacterial culture.
longitudinal axis
a lengthwise axis from head to tail end of an animal.
Full article >>>

Ballistic particle-mediated gene transfer. Complementary DNA molecules are adsorbed to gold particles and shot by a pressure gas jet into tissues or culture cells.
HIGH-PRESSURE FREEZING ...
Full article >>>

Davis-Award of Distinction-College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences (highest recognition of the college) (1998) ...
Full article >>>


'"/>