bacterial population

collocation in English

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bacterial
adjective
uk
/bækˈtɪə.ri.əl/us
/bækˈtɪr.i.əl/
caused by, made from, or relating ...
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population
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
all the people living in a particular country, area, ...
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(Definition ofbacterialandpopulationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The task is not simple, as the production of the lubricant requires collective action of the densebacterialpopulationthat the food-depleted substrate cannot sustain.
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Plates were spread in triplicate and the direct counts averaged to estimate the total heterotrophicbacterialpopulation.
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The size of thebacterialpopulationof these colonies is larger than that of people on earth, yet they coordinate their behavior.
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In case of high-densitybacterialpopulation, the newborn cells are immediately exposed to starvation stress, hence their behavior is different.
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As a result, we have recorded an increase of thebacterialpopulationafter each run.
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Hence, any dispersion of this timescale (the primarily random variable here) will translate into an exponential dispersion in thebacterialpopulationsampled.
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Even with today's most advanced computers it is beyond computer power to handle a tenth of the billions of automatons that comprise the number of thebacterialpopulation.
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The other is that after a lag in growth, all members of thebacterialpopulationadapt and grow.
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One is that a few members of thebacterialpopulationare better suited to survival than the others—one might perhaps call them mutants—and multiply.
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It involves the variation of protein expression, frequently in an on-off fashion, within different parts of abacterialpopulation.
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Thebacterialpopulationneeds both carbonaceous and nitrogenous strains present.
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The zone of destruction has a more mixedbacterialpopulationwhere proteolytic enzymes have destroyed the organic matrix.
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Hence, local doubling of thebacterialpopulationoccurs.
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Nematodes can effectively regulatebacterialpopulationand community composition - they may eat up to 5,000 bacteria per minute.
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