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Preculture vs Precultured - What's the difference?

preculture | precultured |

As verbs the difference between preculture and precultured

is that preculture is to culture in advance, such as before the main phase of an experiment while precultured is past tense of preculture.

As a noun preculture

is a preliminary culture; a culture prepared in advance of the main experiment.

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.}}

    precultured

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (preculture)

    • 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.}}