Sentence examples for germ unit from inspiring English sources

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and other senior American officials have said that in late 1999 a defecting Iraqi chemical engineer told American officials he had supervised operations at a mobile germ unit, and that Baghdad was making a fleet of them.

Officials familiar with the secret project say that to design an American version of a mobile germ unit, the government turned to Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, then a rising star in the world of biological defense but more recently publicly identified by the Justice Department as "a person of interest" in the anthrax investigation.

The three nuclei reside close to each other in the center of the pollen grain, forming the male germ unit [33].

Pollen tubes fail to either reach or enter the micropyle in A. thaliana mutants with nonviable or aberrant female gametophytes yet apparently normal diploid ovule tissue, providing strong support for the role of the haploid germ unit in promoting growth to the micropyle [ 12, 13].

In flowering plants, unlike animals, the male and female germ units are multicellular, haploid structures that develop in different organs of the flower (Fig. 1A and 1B).

Using the methods described previously (Hirano and Hoshino 2010 a ), we isolated cells as male germ units in which the generative cell or the sperm cell pair was closely associated with the vegetative nucleus.

The Iraqi, a chemical engineer, said that the trailers appeared to be modern versions of a germ production unit he had supervised.

Mr Ienaga had written that Japan established a germ-warfare unit in the suburbs of Harbin, in north-eastern China, and carried out "cruel experiments on thousands of foreigners for years".

The protocol consists of the dissociation of the seminiferous tubules and epithelial cells of the testis followed by separation of mixed germ cells by unit gravity sedimentation on the basis of their size.

Nine germ warfare National Guard units, in their first deployment ever, have been sent to select locations.

If spores and signature gasses from the germ food escaped the unit, experts said, inspectors down wind with sensitive detectors might be able to detect the illegal manufacturing.