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restreak

restreak verb: to repeat a streaking procedure.

Verb

restreak (third-person singular simple present restreaks, present participle restreaking, simple past and past participle restreaked)

  1. To repeat a streaking procedure
    • Colonies of a single tetrad were restreaked onto rich medium and incubated […].1998 May 1, Serge Gravel et al., “Yeast Ku as a Regulator of Chromosomal DNA End Structure”, in Science, volume 280, number 5364, →DOI, pages 741–744
    • With GR and GR 526, all transformants yielded blue colonies and gave rise only to blue colonies on restreaking.2000 January 28, Liming Li, Susan Lindquist, “Creating a Protein-Based Element of Inheritance”, in Science, volume 287, number 5453, →DOI, pages 661–664

Noun

restreak (plural restreaks)

  1. A repeat streaking procedure
    • Cells […] did not senesce after five successive restreaks at 23°C (23 ).1998 May 1, Serge Gravel et al., “Yeast Ku as a Regulator of Chromosomal DNA End Structure”, in Science, volume 280, number 5364, →DOI, pages 741–744
    • These phenotypes diminished during successive restreaks; after ~75 generations, the colony and cell morphology appeared to be wild type[…].2001 May 11, Peter Baumann, Thomas R. Cech, “Pot1, the Putative Telomere End-Binding Protein in Fission Yeast and Humans”, in Science, volume 292, number 5519, →DOI, pages 1171–1175

Forms of restreak

Verb
third-person singular presentrestreaks
present participlerestreaking
past participlerestreaked
pastrestreaked
Noun
pluralrestreaks

Origin of restreak

From re- + streak.

Questions about restreak

What does restreak mean?
Restreak means to repeat a streaking procedure.
What part of speech is restreak?
Restreak can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of restreak?
The past tense of restreak is restreaked.

Words near restreak in the dictionary

  1. restratifications
  2. restratified
  3. restratifies
  4. restratify
  5. restratifying
  6. restreak
  7. restreaked
  8. restreaking
  9. restreaks
  10. restream
  11. restreamed

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