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fadenförmig
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adj
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Filamentous
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fädig
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adj
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Filamentous
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Refers to microorganisms growing with
cells in long chains (held together by relatively strong capsular material)
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FADN
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FADN
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Flavine Adenine Dinucleotide; a coenzyme
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FAICARP
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FAICARP
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5-Formamido-1-(5’-phosphoribosyl)-imidazole-4-carboxamide
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fakultativ aerob
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adj
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Facultatively aerobic
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Grows better in presence of oxygen, but
can grow without it
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fakultativ anaerob
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adj
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Facultatively anaerobic
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Grow better in absence of oxygen, but can
grow presence of oxygen
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Farbkompensationsfilter
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Color compensation filter
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Photo(micro)graphy: used over camera lens
(or over microscope condenser) to make daylight film usable with artificial
light, or the reverse
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Färbung
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Staining
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Of microorganisms, or tissues
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Faulanlage
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Anaerobic digestor
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Faulung
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Anaerobic digestion
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Fed-Batch-Verfahren
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Fed-batch fermentation
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Batch fermentation with additions of
substrate during growth
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Feedback-Hemmung
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Feedback inhibition
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The product of a reaction (or series of
reactions) inhibits one or more of the enzymes catalyzing the reaction.
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Felsengebirgs(fleck)fieber
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever
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Pathogen: Rickettsia rickettsii (carried by ticks)
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Ferment
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Enzyme
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Fermentationsbruhe
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Fermentation broth (or medium)
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Fermenter-Mäntel
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Fermentor jacket
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for heating or cooling the fermentor
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Fernbachkolben
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m, -s, -
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Fernbach flask
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Conical glass container with flat bottom;
ratio of diameter to height is relatively large, compared with an Erlenmeyer
flask. Used in microbial culture to provide a large surface for aeration.
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Fesselverfahren
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Captive process
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An enclosed process for surface
production of vinegar, in which the culture is pumped over a packing of beech
chips. Generally, an immobilized culture process.
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Festbettreaktor
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Fixed-bed reactor
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Solid-phase pieces/particles are fixed in
position as the fluid phase passes through
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FGAM
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FGAM
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5--phosphoribosyl-N’-formylglycinamidine
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FGAR
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FGAR
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5’-phosphoribosyl-N’-formylglycinamide
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Filterkerze
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Filter candle (cartridge)
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Filterpatrone
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Filter cartridge
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Filterzentrifuge
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Filter centrifuge
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Centrifuging forces fluid through a
filter cloth
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Filtrierhilfsmittel
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Filter aid
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A material such as diatomaceous earth
used to coat a filter for better retention
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Fimbrien
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pl
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Fimbria (?)
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See ‘Pili’
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FITC
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FITC
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Fluorescein Isothiocyanate
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Finnpipette
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Finn pipet
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A tradename
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fixieren
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v
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fix
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a.
cause a smear to adhere to a microscope slide (usually by brief
heating.
b. particularly refers to conversion of
elemental (free) nitrogen to bound forms such as ammonia
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Fleckfieber
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Spotted fever
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(Rocky Mountain spotted fever)
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Flecktyphus
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Typhus
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Note that typhus is often confused with
typhoid fever; see note with ‘typhoid fever’.
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Fliessbettreaktor
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Fluidized bed reactor
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Fluid flow keeps solid particles
suspended. Some German authors consider that a ‘Fliessbettreaktor’ has
essentially plug flow through a relatively fixed column while a ‘Wirbelschichtreaktor’
has very turbulent flow through a suspension.
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Fließschema
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Flow diagram
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Flock
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Floc
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A group of cells (or other particles)
which stick together loosely
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Flockung
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Flocculation
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Producing clumps of particles (cells)
from individual particles
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Flockung
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Flocculation
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Flockungsmittel
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Flocculant
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Flotation
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Flotation
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Fluoreszenzstrahlung
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Fluorescence radiation
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Fluram
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Fluram
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Fluorescamine (a reagent which combines
with amino acids to make fluorescent products; used to improve detection in amino
acid analysis by chromatography)
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FMN
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FMN
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Flavine Monoucleotide; a coenzyme
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Förderliche Vergrösserung
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Useful magnification
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Formiat
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Formate
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HCOO-
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fraktionierte Sterilisation
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fractional sterilization
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Heating on successive days to kill spores
which have germinated in the meantime;
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Freistrahlbelüfter
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Frings
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Frings
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H. Frings company (Bonn), which developed
a vinegar ‘generator’.
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Frischmasse
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Wet weight
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‘Mass’ is technically more correct than
‘weight’, but is rarely used in this context in US English
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Froschlaichbacterium
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Frog-spawn bacterium
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Term for Leuconostoc mesenteroides growing in sugar refineries; it
produces slime by converting sucrose to dextran.
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Froudezahl
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Froude’s number
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Dimensionless number based on stirrer
diameter and speed
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Fruchtkörper
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Fruiting bodies
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Reproductive structures of myxobacteria
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Fumarat
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Fumarate
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Anion of fumaric acid, the trans form of
HOOCCH=CHCOOH (the cis form is maleic acid)
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Futtermittel
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Feed additive
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Additive for animal feed
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