The phrase "a template on which" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a foundational document or model that serves as a guide for creating something else.
Example: "The report serves as a template on which all future analyses will be based."
Alternatives: "a model for" or "a framework upon which".
Each strand is a template on which a new strand is built.
Pacino's wild crew, "tough kids with high I.Q.s and tragic endings," became a template on which he modelled many of his memorable characters.
When separated, each might serve as a template on which a new, complementary chain could be assembled with exactly the same information as the old.
Also, during the so-called "golden era" - the 1930s and 1940s - when the studios were turning out hundreds of films at a rapid rate, the generic concept provided script writers with a template on which to work.
This was then used as a template on which to electrospin a biodegradable membrane of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) 50 50, which incorporates the features of the underlying microfabricated structures.
And if I had to choose one recipe that emphasizes this point, one that could please those who read the guidelines cover to cover (www.healthierus.gov, and good luck!) and those who just want a template on which to base consistently healthy meals, it would be the time-honored stir-fry.
On a recent morning, Stephen Crouch of the Middletown Monument Company perched before the stone on a high platform, applying a rubber template on which was stenciled the first 200 names.
It's easy to see why — not only is comics one the most vibrant storytelling mediums in the world, but the books themselves offer built-in storyboarding, providing writers and directors a visual template on which to build a film.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Ohno (1967) and Nei (1969) suggested that an early step in the process involved the duplication of an 'old' gene to generate a spare template on which to build the new function, leaving the other copy free to retain the original function.
Supramolecular architectures provide a reproducible template on which surficial processes can be studied.
Under basic conditions, the spherical assembly was used as a reactive template on which metal clusters were deposited.
