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Sparse

sparse

1. Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population.

2. (Science: botany) Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like.

Origin: L. Sparsus, p.p. Of spargere to strew, scatter. Cf. Asperse, Disperse.


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Re: Biochem Help?

... with MW and you have your answer. 5- your prof should have told you about the best numbers for counting. Basically if a plate is too dense or too sparse the value cannot be trusted (in one case because there are too many to insure correct isolation, in the other because the effect of random distributio ...

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by canalon
Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:37 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Biochem Help?
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The Fiber Disease

... imagination....BIG ideas....no facts. Do you have them Frank.....? Everything that I have submitted has been fact UK. Facts do seem to be a bit sparse on the Tam Scam side though don't they? You know, I never did get an answer about how business was on the silentsuperscam site.

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by Frank N Stein
Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:36 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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The Fiber Disease

... conjugates (57). Histopathologic examination of infected tissue shows a necrotizing arteritis and thrombosis (Table 1). Vascular invasion by sparsely septate, irregularly branched hyphae is seen (56). The infectious process spreads along the vessel walls proximally, and the organism may be ...

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by hartuk
Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:58 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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Cotton Cutie

... Their heads are black and their bodies seem already to have begun to vary in color. The body above is furnished with sparse, stiff hairs, each arising from a tubercle. I have often watched the newly hatched boll while in the cotton fields. When hatched from an egg ...

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by Systemic
Sat Sep 16, 2006 7:46 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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The Cape Verde Giant Skink: Macroscincus coctei

... suggests (bones, etc.) that they were on Ilhe'u Sao Vincente and Ilhe'u Sao Anto. These islands are described as uninhabited, rocky outcrops with sparse vegetation consisting only of ten species of mallows and great quantities of sand dunes (due to erosion) on their southern tier. The Cape Verde ...

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by Brian - LCRC
Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:18 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: The Cape Verde Giant Skink: Macroscincus coctei
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