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incubation
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incubation [‚iŋ·kyə′bā·shən]
(chemistry)
Maintenance of chemical mixtures at specified temperatures for varying time periods to study chemical reactions, such as enzyme activity.
(medicine)
The phase of an infectious disease process between infection by the pathogen and appearance of symptoms.
(vertebrate zoology)
The act or process of brooding.


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A pelagic larva (lecithotrophic or planktotrophic), can remain in the water column for weeks, thus favoring its dispersion, in contrast with the direct mode of development where the individuals hatch from maternal incubatory structures as crawling juveniles (Collin 2001) thus remaining close to their sites of generation.
As a whole, this article serves to whet the appetite of those interested in agribusiness and Agricenter International's incubatory environment.
In Greek, KRISIS means the ultimate evolution of a long incubatory process where a decision has to be made; in Chinese, the word crisis, WEI JI, combines the notion of threat and opportunity.
 
 
 
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