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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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The captive breeding programme involves using artificial insemination (as natural breeding is a rare occurrence in caged Houbara Bustards) and artificial incubation of the eggs.
A flying heritage by Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
ABSTRACT In artificial incubation of astacid crayfish eggs, stage 2 juveniles must be removed by hand from incubators and a significant decrease in survival rates has been recorded between hatching (stage 1) and the first moult (stage 2).
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