restreak

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Definition of restreak

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

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.”

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verb

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.”

noun

A repeat streaking procedure

“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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From re- + streak.

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