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Culture vs Preculture - What's the difference?

culture | preculture |

As nouns the difference between culture and preculture

is that culture is the arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation while preculture is a preliminary culture; a culture prepared in advance of the main experiment.

As verbs the difference between culture and preculture

is that culture is to maintain in an environment suitable for growth especially of bacteria while preculture is to culture in advance, such as before the main phase of an experiment.

culture

English

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Noun

(en noun)
  • The arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-07, volume=408, issue=8852, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Farming as rocket science , passage=Such differences of history and culture have lingering consequences. Almost all the corn and soyabeans grown in America are genetically modified. GM crops are barely tolerated in the European Union. Both America and Europe offer farmers indefensible subsidies, but with different motives.}}
  • The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=(Jan Sapp)
    • , volume=100, issue=2, page=164, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Race Finished , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture , ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution.}}
  • (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
  • (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
  • The collective noun for a group of bacteria.
  • (botany) Cultivation.
  • * http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm
    • The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs
  • (computing) The language and peculiarities of a geographical location.
    • A culture is the combination of the language that you speak and the geographical location you belong to. It also includes the way you represent dates, times and currencies. ... Examples: en-UK, en-US, de-AT, fr-BE, etc.

    Derived terms

    * alliumculture * anticulture * coleculture * cucurbitculture * culture hero * cyberculture * legumeculture * macroculture * microculture * monoculture * multiculture * olericulture * overculture * solanaculture * subculture * permaculture * uberculture * underculture

    Related terms

    * agriculture

    Verb

    (cultur)
  • To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria).
  • To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something).

    • Related terms

    * cult * cultivate * culture shock * cultural * cultural criticism * culturally * cultured * horticulture

    See also

    * colonus * colonia * column * cycle * wheel English collective nouns ----

    preculture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) A preliminary culture; a culture prepared in advance of the main experiment
  • *{{quote-journal, 2008, date=December 5, Ulf Riebesell et al., Comment on "Phytoplankton Calcification in a High-CO2 World", Science citation
    • , passage=Second, some of the precultures used by Iglesias-Rodriguez et al. , particularly those in high-CO2 treatments, may have experienced nutrient limitation at the time of transfer to the experimental flasks.}}

    Verb

    (precultur)
  • (biology) To culture in advance, such as before the main phase of an experiment
  • *{{quote-journal, 2001, T.B. Darr & A. Hubel, Postthaw Viability of Precultured Hepatocytes, Cryobiology, volume=42, issue=1 citation
    • , passage=For fresh, nonfrozen hepatocytes precultured for 24 h prior to being plated on collagen, the albumin secretion rate was 0.88 ± 0.62 mg/ml/h.}}