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- noun biology A
subset of astrain , especially one derived from a singlecell
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Examples
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"And there we went, possibly contaminating the Enterprise with every strain and substrain, when Sendet had carried up only a strain which attacks iron-based blood—a strain for which we now have a cure!"
The Idic Epidemic Jean Lorrah 2000
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All were C57s, and all were of the substrain that supposedly preferred alcohol.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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In a small preliminary study, my colleagues and I ordered 20 C57 black mice of the 6J substrain that prefers alcohol over water.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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In a small preliminary study, my colleagues and I ordered 20 C57 black mice of the 6J substrain that prefers alcohol over water.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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All were C57s, and all were of the substrain that supposedly preferred alcohol.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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There were faint odours of spring in the air, and the grass here and there was streaked with great patches of daisies; but it was spring with a foreknowledge of autumn, a day to be enjoyed with a substrain of sadness, the foreboding of regret, a day somehow to make one feel as if one had seen and felt a great deal -- quite, as
Italian Hours Henry James 1879
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In cell cultures where the drug was used, a drug - resistant substrain of prion evolved to become predominant.
JSOnline.com 2010
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When the drug was withdrawn, the substrain that was susceptible to the drug again grew to become the dominate strain.
JSOnline.com 2010
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It is a substrain of H1N1, presenting a new pattern of genes that resulted from a mix of existing viruses of human, pig and avian flu.
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It is a substrain of H1N1, presenting a new pattern of genes that resulted from a mix of existing viruses of human, pig and avian flu.
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