pure culture
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pure culture
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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They produced a pure culture of this new bacterial strain, in which they were finally able to identify the key enzyme that triggers the oxidation of phosphite to phosphate.
From Science Daily • Nov. 10, 2023
German physician Robert Koch is credited with discovering the techniques for pure culture, including staining and using growth media.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
“If we had a pure culture, it would be a lot easier” to test ideas about cell metabolism and environmental influences on conductance, says the center’s Andreas Schramm.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 19, 2020
Denmark’s Carlsberg brewery established one of the world’s first yeast-biology labs in 1875, and it was there that Emil Christian Hansen isolated the first pure culture of a brewing yeast in 1883.
From Nature • Jul. 25, 2016
In three fetuses the bacillus was found in the intestinal contents in pure culture; in one fetus it was isolated from the blood.
From Contagious Abortion of Cows by MacNeal, Ward J.
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