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Viruses are not an organism at all. They are not alive. They are nonliving. They are like cockle burrs that "grab" hold of your clothing or a dog’s coat. They are hijackers. Once they get attached to the cell of a living cell, they can take it over and "make" the living cell produce virus particles instead of cell parts. These particles can assemble into more viruses and then they break out of the cell (killing it) and begin the process again. They cannot make more viruses on their own.
They can only be cultured in living cells.
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What is a cell culture how can A cell culture be useful to biologist?
A cell culture is where cells are grown under controlled conditions.
What is a cell culture and how can a cell culture be useful to biologists?
A cell culture is where cells are grown under controlled conditions.
What is a cell culture how can cell culture be useful to biologists?
A cell culture is where cells are grown under controlled conditions.
What you mean by stem cell culture?
The stem cell "culture" is the medium in which the stem cell is able to divide and grow.
What do you call a group of cells grown in a nutrient solution from a single cell?
Cell culture is a nearly universally used technique to grow material for biological testing. In cell culture, an original population of seed cells divide under tightly controlled conditions to propagate the culture. All of the daughter cells from the original population are clones.
What is a group of cell grown in a nutrient from a single original cell called?
cell culture
What is L-15 cell culture medium?
It is just a type of a culture medium. The "L" there stands for Lebowitz, presumably the last name of the first person who came up with that culture medium.
Microbiology If there were no plaques on your plate offer an explanation?
Because viruses cannot multiply without a host cell, they cannot be grown in sterile media the way bacteria can. Host cells must be provided for the virus to infect. Bacteriophage may be cultured with bacterial cells in liquid culture or on plates. To culture on plates, bacteria and bacteriophage are combined in melted agar and then poured into plates. The bacterial cells divide and evenly cover the surface of the plate forming a lawn. Wherever bacterial cells have been destroyed by the bacteriophage, clearings called plaques will appear in the lawn. Because it is harder to culture animal cells than it is for most bacteria, it is also more difficult to grow animal viruses in the lab. Some animal cells will grow in culture dishes much as bacteria do and will form a single layer on the bottom of a dish that contains a suitable growth medium. Viruses that can infect these cells can be grown along with them. Animal cells that are infected by the virus will display visible deterioration. Some viruses whose host cells can not be grown in culture can be grown in living animals such as rabbits, mice, and guinea pigs. Other viruses can be grown in fertilized chicken eggs. However, because some viral host ranges are highly specific, each virus infects only certain cell types, I cannot grow all cells in culture, yes grow all viruses.
What does a culture medium provide for a cell (apex)?
Water (apex)
What are cell culture based vaccines?
cell culture vaccines are vaccines produced from cells that are cultured and grown under controlled conditions.
Why virus can't replicate on environmental surfaces or in synthetic laboratory medium?
Growing VirusesViruses cannot be grown on an ordinary culture medium because they are not actually living organisms, but are more of a microscopic parasite that "lives" and thrives by infecting cells which then infect other cells and so on and so forth. Viruses can be cultured in living cells, however.Viruses are not an organism at all. They are not alive. They are nonliving. They are like cockle burrs that "grab" hold of your clothing or a dog’s coat. They are hijackers. Once they get attached to the cell of a living cell, they can take it over and "make" the living cell produce virus particles instead of cell parts. These particles can assemble into more viruses and then they break out of the cell (killing it) and begin the process again. They cannot make more viruses on their own.
What does a culture medium provide to a living thing?
Culture media in microbiology is a media where microorganisms like bacteria from a sample is grown into colony for the identification of particular organism.eg-simple media like blood agar,choclate agar
