After the incubation, yeast colonies were observed, picked and grown in liquid YPD (Yeast extract, Peptone, Dextrose) [20 g/L yeast extract (BD, USA), 5 g/L peptone (BD Difco, USA), 40 g/L dextrose (Fermont, Mexico)] under the same conditions for further identification.
(I prefer to forget that nowadays one is never quite alone. With all those satellites, the solitary traveller may be observed picking her nose in the middle of the Great Karoo).
Men who had the ants under study in the field and in the laboratory say that the fire ants feed extensively on other insects, many of them considered harmful to man's interests — fire ants have been observed picking larvae of the boll weevil off cotton — and that their mound-building activities serve a useful purpose in aerating and draining the soil.
Bill Gates once observed, picking up on the famous metaphor from chaos theory, "Some butterfly did the right thing for me.
As Bill Gates once observed, picking up on the famous metaphor from chaos theory, "Some butterfly did the right thing for me".
Four others were also observed being picked up by the police, some after handing petitions to officers.
Four to five weeks after introduction, several colonies resembling marmoset ES cells were observed and picked for further expansion in ES cell medium.
Here, a bird individual from the bigger species was repeatedly observed to "pick up [its smaller opponent] and drop it off the side of the feeder" to which both species were attracted, so quickly that the smaller bird "had no chance to struggle before it was dropped".
— Early in Richard Nelson's clinical new production of Turgenev's "Month in the Country," one character says waspishly to her platonic lover, "You love observing people, picking them apart, rummaging around in them... ...... It's a fair definition of everybody else onstage: These folks just can't stop dissecting one another's behavior and motives and affectations.
At the onset of the dark cycle, each mouse was placed in an empty cage with one L. monocytogenes-contaminated bread piece and was observed until it picked up the bread and consumed it entirely as previously described.
As Professor Polsby observed, "Lieberman was picked to indemnify Gore against the charge that he was sleazy".
