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2. Incubator (culture) - Wikipedia

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   Incubator (culture) An incubator is a device used to grow and maintain microbiological cultures or cell cultures. The incubator maintains optimal temperature, humidity and other conditions such as the CO 2 and oxygen content of the atmosphere inside. Incubators are essential for much experimental work in cell biology, microbiology and molecular ...

3. Temperature-dependent sex determination - Wikipedia

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   Dioecy. Gonochorism. Hermaphrodite. v. t. e. Temperature-dependent sex determination ( TSD) is a type of environmental sex determination in which the temperatures experienced during embryonic/larval development determine the sex of the offspring. [ 1] It is observed in reptiles and teleost fish, with some reports of it occurring in species of ...

4. Thermostat - Wikipedia

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   He invented a mercury thermostat to regulate the temperature of a chicken incubator. [6] This is one of the first recorded feedback-controlled devices. Modern thermostatic control was developed in the 1830s by Andrew Ure (1778–1857), a Scottish chemist. The textile mills of the time needed a constant and steady temperature to operate ...

5. Laboratory water bath - Wikipedia

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   Laboratory water bath. Inside a shaking water bath. A water bath operating at 72°C. A water bath is laboratory equipment made from a container filled with heated water. It is used to incubate samples in water at a constant temperature over a long period of time. Most water baths have a digital or an analogue interface to allow users to set a ...

6. Shaker (laboratory) - Wikipedia

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   Shaker (laboratory) A temperature-controlled shaker, as used in biochemistry work. A shaker is a piece of laboratory equipment used to mix, blend, or agitate substances in a tube or flask by shaking them. It is mainly used in the fields of chemistry and biology. A shaker contains an oscillating board that is used to place the flasks, beakers ...

7. Incubator (egg) - Wikipedia

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   An incubator is a device simulating avian incubation by keeping eggs warm at a particular temperature range and in the correct humidity with a turning mechanism to hatch them. The common names of the incubator in other terms include breeding / hatching machines or hatchers, setters, and egg breeding / equipment. [ 1]