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Restreak vs Null - What's the difference?

restreak | null |

As nouns the difference between restreak and null

is that restreak is (microbiology) a repeat streaking procedure while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb restreak

is (microbiology) to repeat a streaking procedure.

restreak

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (microbiology) To repeat a streaking procedure
  • * {{quote-journal, 1998, date=May 1, Serge Gravel et al., Yeast Ku as a Regulator of Chromosomal DNA End Structure, Science citation
  • , passage=Colonies of a single tetrad were restreaked onto rich medium and incubated
  • * {{quote-journal, 2000, date=January 28, Liming Li & Susan Lindquist, Creating a Protein-Based Element of Inheritance, Science citation
  • , passage=With GR and GR 526 , all transformants yielded blue colonies and gave rise only to blue colonies on restreaking . }}
  • * {{quote-journal, 2000, date=July 14, B. B. Magee & P. T. Magee, Induction of Mating in Candida albicans by Construction of MTLa and MTLalpha Strains, Science citation
  • , passage=The cells were restreaked on minimal medium. }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (microbiology) A repeat streaking procedure
  • * {{quote-journal, 1998, date=May 1, Serge Gravel et al., Yeast Ku as a Regulator of Chromosomal DNA End Structure, Science citation
  • , passage=Cells
  • * {{quote-journal, 2001, date=May 11, Peter Baumann & Thomas R. Cech, Pot1, the Putative Telomere End-Binding Protein in Fission Yeast and Humans, Science citation
  • , passage=These phenotypes diminished during successive restreaks ; after ~75 generations, the colony and cell morphology appeared to be wild type

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    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----