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Example sentences for: colony

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Probing colony blots of the E. coli (pYUB178::H37Rv) library with the 0.8 kb PCR fragment led to the isolation of a 4 kb plasmid.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said she would attend the ceremonies in Hong Kong when the British colony reverts to Chinese control--to show her support for continued democracy in Hong Kong.
"Year of the Trojan Horse," proclaimed one New York Times headline the day after the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong was returned to China.
In the present study, we compared body (somatic) growth and ovarian activity in females given daily, nuzzling contact with male scentmarks (exposed) with that in females individually caged in a mixed sex colony but isolated from direct contact with male scentmarks (unexposed).
Positive products were then identified by colony hybridization using the YL-1 cDNA as a probe.