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Zooplankton
Zooplankton are microscopic animals that are suspended in the water column.
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Vitamin solution
A solution containing small amounts of important organic molecules that allow for normal growth. These generally cannot be made by the algae. For marine algae a vitamin solution generally consists of thiamine (Vitamin B1), biotin (vitamin H), and cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12). These vitamins can be denatured when sterilized with heat, so we use submicron filtration to avoid contamination in our PBRs.
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Trace metal (element) solution
This is a collection of micronutrients that make up one part of many nutrient recipes.
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Turbidity
Is a metric of how much light is being obscured in a liquid. It is caused by suspended material in water (i.e., particulates such as sediments, phytoplankton, colloids, etc.).
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Strain
A group or organisms of the same species, that differ in minimal ways from the rest of the species. For example the diatom, Chaetoceros muelleri, has a strain called CHGRA that is commonly cultured for feeding shellfish in hatcheries.