What does restreak mean?
Restreak means (microbiology) To repeat a streaking procedure.
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(microbiology) To repeat a streaking procedure.
Colonies of a single tetrad were restreaked onto rich medium and incubated […].
With GR and GR 526, all transformants yielded blue colonies and gave rise only to blue colonies on restreaking.
The cells were restreaked on minimal medium.
Cells […] did not senesce after five successive restreaks at 23°C (23 ).
These phenotypes diminished during successive restreaks; after ~75 generations, the colony and cell morphology appeared to be wild type[…].
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Restreak means (microbiology) To repeat a streaking procedure.
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Colonies of a single tetrad were restreaked onto rich medium and incubated […].
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