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58 Terms used in Bionomenclature<br />

culture collection: (bot., prok.) a collection in which cultures of<br />

microorganisms are permanently maintained in a living state or in<br />

one from which they can be revived; culture collections may supply<br />

strains (including type and ex-type cultures) and provide other<br />

services, such as serving as International Depositary Authorities for<br />

strains cited in patents (i.e. service collections); the more<br />

explanatory terms biological resource centre (q.v.) or genetic<br />

resource centre (q.v.) are increasing preferred as the name for such<br />

collections; commonly referred to by individual acronyms (see<br />

World Data Center for Microorganisms) in the citation of cultures<br />

examined in systematic works.<br />

culture: (prok.) a population of bacterial cells in a given place at a given<br />

time, e.g. in this test tube.<br />

cultype: see cultotype.<br />

Current use: of names, the preponderant way in which names are applied<br />

in recent scientific publications; see also Names in Current Use.<br />

cv., [pl. cvs.]: see cultivar.<br />

cyclophasic cultivar: (cult. pl.) a clone with the same genotype as the<br />

original parent plant but differing in its phenotype due to being<br />

originally asexually propagated from specific tissue from a phase in<br />

the plant’s life-cycle.<br />

cyclus, [cycle]: (cult. pl., unoff.) a taxoid for the designation of a group of<br />

closely related plants (mostly of hybrid origin), the features of<br />

which combine in a net-like manner and whose relationships are<br />

also net-like.<br />

cyrioplesiotype: (zool., unoff.) the principal or typical specimen among<br />

several plesiotypes (q.v.).<br />

cytological characters: (cult. pl.) the characters within the cellular<br />

structure of an organism.<br />

cytotype: (1) (zool., unoff.) a portion of a type prepared to show identical<br />

cytological features (e.g. chromosomes) as those originally<br />

described for the taxon. (2) (bot., unoff.) proposed as an<br />

infraspecific category for plants distinguished by cytological

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