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klinostat

Meaning of "klinostat" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF KLINOSTAT

ˈklaɪnəʊˌstæt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KLINOSTAT

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Klinostat is a noun.
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WHAT DOES KLINOSTAT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Clinostat

A clinostat is a device which uses rotation to negate the effects of gravitational pull on plant growth and development. It has also been used to study the effects of microgravity on cell cultures and animal embryos.

Definition of klinostat in the English dictionary

The definition of klinostat in the dictionary is a rotating and tilting plant-holder used for studying and experimenting with plant growth.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KLINOSTAT

aerostat · bacteriostat · barostat · chemostat · clinostat · coccidiostat · cryostat · Eisenstaedt · Eurostat · gyrostat · haemostat · heliostat · hemostat · humidistat · hydrostat · hygrostat · photostat · pyrostat · siderostat · thermostat

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KLINOSTAT

klett · kletterschuh · kletterschuhe · klezmer · klezmer music · klick · klieg light · Klimt · Kline · klinker · Klint · klipdas · klipspringer · klister · Klondike · klondiker · klondyke · klondyker · klong · klooch

WORDS THAT END LIKE KLINOSTAT

aegrotat · antistat · appestat · attentat · coelostat · despotat · diktat · etat · fungistat · habitat · latitat · microhabitat · nihil obstat · rat-a-tat · rat-a-tat-tat · rat-tat · rat-tat-tat · tat · tit for tat · tit-for-tat

Synonyms and antonyms of klinostat in the English dictionary of synonyms

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KLINOSTAT»

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Biology for CXC
4 Put some moist cotton wool in the 6 After several days, observe the two 2 Pin one of the seedlings to the cork klinostat chamber and the beaker so seedlings. in the klinostat as shown in the as to keep the seedlings moist. „ How do they differ ...
M.B.V. Roberts, June Mitchelmore, 2000
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Practical Physiology of plants
klinostat is placed with the spindle at right angles to the plane of the window, the leaves will be pointing almost directly away from the light. The angular divergence from the vertical of a few leaves having been noted the klinostat is set in ...
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Principles of Plant Physiology
The instrument known as the klinostat has also proved of the greatest value in the investigation of geotropic and other phenomena of irritability. This instrument is simply a revolving wheel or disk to which the experimental material is attached, ...
Walter Stiles, 1994
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Plant Tropisms: And Other Growth Movements
Box. 3.1. The. centrifuge. and. the. klinostat. in. gravitropic. research. A prime requirement in the physiological investigation of any factor is the facility for controlled application of the factor, particularly its intensity and its duration. Gravity ...
J.W. Hart, 1990
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Biology: A Functional Approach
60- <a 40- 2 J 20- rso 20 8 hio 1 B 10 r 20 I JO I 4(1 Temperature (°C) Figure 27.9 A klinostat in operation. A broad bean seedling is attached to the cork. The filter paper is soaked in water so as to keep the atmosphere in the perspex cylinder ...
M. B. V. Roberts, 1986
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Handbuch Der Pflanzenphysiologie: Physiologie der ...
species actually showed that both roots and stems, rotated at an angle to the horizontal axis of the klinostat, did bend toward the horizontal. Orthotopic organs. Klinostat axis inclined. Fig. 16 shows two examples in which the klinostat axis ...
Wilhelm Ruhland, 1962
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The Junior Leader: Magazine of the Nigerian Military School, ...
BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT EXPERIMENT REPORT Title: Experiment to demonstrate the geotropic response of roots to gravity and photo-tropic response of shoots to light. Apparatus-Materials: Rotating klinostat (electrical) germinating bean ...
Nigerian Military School (Zaria), Nigerian Military School, Zaria, 1988
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Science
In. deed, the recent work of F. Darwin and Pertzimay be taken to indicate that a plant on the horizontal klinostat, remaining in a quadrant for a period even less than the latent period of curvature may keep up a rhythmic oscillation as it revolves.
‎1904
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Physiological Instruments Manufactured by the Cambridge ...
Klinostat. on. Adjustable. Stand. The. Kiinostat. itself. is. similar to the instrument described above, but is supported on a special stand which will allow it to be clamped with the spindle making any angle with the horizon. This angle is read by ...
Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, Ltd. (Cambridge, England)., Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, 1899
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The New Phytologist
A box containing seven Helianthus seedlings was attached horizontally to a revolving klinostat. The klinostat used in these experiments had a long horizontal rod as the revolving axis, and this axis was fitted through a hole in the cork of a jar ...
Sir Arthur George Tansley, 1921

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KLINOSTAT»

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Irritability In Plants: Phototropism And Geotropism
The klinostat is a clockwork mechanism which turns a cork cylinder at the rate of about one revolution every fifteen minutes. Seedlings can be ... «Nigerian Observer, May 14»
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