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Example sentences for: colony

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Positive products were then identified by colony hybridization using the YL-1 cDNA as a probe.
Then, to the astonishment of the local populace, the Duke of Windsor, having given up his throne for an American divorcée, was named governor of the little colony in 1940.
For the sur2 recombinant, PCR primers were designed to amplify a 0.8 kb region of the M. tuberculosis insert from M. tuberculosis genomic DNA for use as a probe in colony blot experiments.
Her refusal to apologize publicly for a 1919 massacre was badly received; Roy's win has been spun as a compensatory gesture from the colonialists to the former colony.
When bacteria grown in rich media were subsequently plated on minimal media lacking thymidine, no colony growth was observed with the exception of Th1P5.