incubation

Examples of incubating

incubating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Thus, the cuckoo deposits eggs in passerine nests, tricking the foster parents into incubating and feeding the cuckoo's young.
No nest is depicted, but the postures are those of the incubating female and the male about to leave in search of food.
When approached to 15 m, only a few incubating birds in the rarely visited parts of the island flew off.
Its efficiency could be greatly increased if genotype information is available, by identifying susceptible animals and removing those potentially incubating the disease.
The control activity was determined by incubating the enzyme in the same conditions, but without inhibitor.
Incubating seeds at fluctuating temperatures in the light, after cold stratification, had a stimulating effect on embryo growth and seed germination.
The sections were dehydrated by incubating the slides in 70% ethanol for 15 s and in 100% ethanol twice, 15 s each.
According to the experiment procedure, incubating of the sample was performed overnight (16 h) until complete lysis was achieved.
The birds were each incubating two or three eggs and there were no signs of chicks yet.
Later she tests its blood and discovers that it has been infected and is incubating a virus that will become highly contagious within a couple of days.
Nitrate production in the field by incubating the soil in polyethylene bags.
Background levels of hypoxanthine uptake were determined by incubating uninfected erythrocytes in parallel wells.
To control for a potential interaction between host reproduction and parasite effect, we recorded whether females were gravid (with eggs in their ventral incubating pouch or marsupium).
Nitrate production in the field by incubating the soils in polyethylene bags.
The embryo and the endosperm, dissected from single seeds, were also used for enzyme assays by placing them directly on the surface of the gel and incubating as described above.
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