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                                                                    Exhibit 3(A)

                         CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
                                      OF
                            LIFE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

     FIRST:  The name of the Corporation is Life Technologies, Inc.

     SECOND:  The address of its registered office in the State of Delaware is
Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County
of New Castle.  The name of its registered agent at such address is The
Corporation Trust Company.

     THIRD:  The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or
activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation
Law of Delaware.

     FOURTH:  The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the
Corporation shall have authority to issue is FIFTY-ONE-MILLION (51,000,000)
shares, consisting of ONE MILLION (1,000,000) shares of Preferred Stock, par
value $0.01 per share (hereinafter, the "Preferred Stock"), and FIFTY MILLION
(50,000,000) shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (hereinafter, the
"Common Stock").

     Shares of Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more
series as may from time to time be determined by the Board of Directors.  Each
series shall be distinctly designated.  All shares of any one series of the
Preferred Stock shall be alike in every particular, except that there may be
different dates from which dividends thereon, if any, shall be cumulative, if
made cumulative.  The powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional
and other rights of each such series, and the qualifications, limitations or
restrictions thereof, if any, may differ from those of any and all other series
at any time outstanding.  The Board of Directors of this Corporation is hereby
expressly granted authority to fix by resolution or resolutions adopted prior to
the issuance of any shares of each particular series of Preferred Stock, the
designation, powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other
rights, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof, if any, of
such series.

     FIFTH:  The name and mailing address of the sole incorporator is as
follows:

           Name                               Mailing Address
           ----                               ---------------
     John D. Thompson                         8717 Grovemont Circle
                                              Gaithersburg, Maryland 20877

     SIXTH:  In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by
statute, the Board of Directors of the Corporation is expressly authorized to
adopt, alter or repeal the Bylaws of the Corporation.

     SEVENTH:  The Corporation may at any time, when authorized by the Board of
Directors, purchase shares of any class issued by it.

     EIGHTH:  The affirmative vote of the holders of not less than sixty-seven
percent (67%) of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Corporation shall
be required for the approval or authorization of any "Business Combination" (as
hereinafter defined) and the affirmative vote of the holders of not less than
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eighty percent (80%) of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the
Corporation shall be required for the approval of any "Business Combination with
a Related Person" (as hereinafter defined); provided, however, that such eighty
percent (80%) voting requirement shall not be applicable, and any "Business
Combination with a Related Person" shall require the affirmative vote of the
holders of not less than sixty-seven percent (67%) of the outstanding shares of
Common Stock of the Corporation, if the conditions in (1), (2) or (3) have been
met:

   (1)  The Business Combination with a Related Person is solely between the
        Corporation and another entity, one hundred percent (100%) of the Common
        Stock of which is owned directly or indirectly by the Corporation; or

   (2)  All of the following conditions have been met:

        (A)  The aggregate amount of cash and the Fair Market Value of the
             property, securities or other consideration to be received per
             share by holders of Common Stock of the Corporation in the Business
             Combination with a Related Person is at least equal to the highest
             of the following:

                (a)  The sum of the market price of the Common Stock immediately
                     prior to the announcement of such Business Combination with
                     a Related Person plus a percentage of such price based on
                     the ratio of:

                        (i)  the highest per share price (including brokerage
                             commissions, transfer taxes and soliciting dealers'
                             fees) which such Related Person has paid for any
                             shares of Common Stock acquired by it within a two-
                             year period prior to the Business Combination with
                             a Related Person, to

                        (ii) the market price of the Common Stock immediately
                             prior to the initial acquisition by such Related
                             Person of any Common Stock;

                (b)  The highest per share price (including brokerage
                     commissions, transfer taxes and soliciting dealer's fees
                     and with appropriate adjustment for recapitalizations and
                     for stock splits, stock dividends and like distributions)
                     paid by such Related Person for any shares of Common Stock
                     acquired by it prior to the Business Combination with a
                     Related Person;

                (c)  The Fair Market Value per share of Common Stock on the date
                     of the first public announcement of the proposal of the
                     Business Combination with a Related Person ("Announcement
                     Date") or on the date on which the Related Person became a
                     Related Person, whichever is higher; and

                (d)  The per share book value of the Common Stock at the end of
                     the fiscal month immediately preceding the Announcement
                     Date of such Business Combination with a Related Person.
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        (B)  The consideration to be received by holders of Common Stock shall
             be in cash or in the same form as the Related Person has previously
             paid for shares of Common Stock. If the Related Person has paid for
             shares of Common Stock with varying forms of consideration, the
             form of consideration for such Common Stock shall be either cash or
             the form used to acquire the largest number of shares previously
             acquired by it.

        (C)  After such Related Person has become a Related Person and prior to
             the consummation of such Business Combination with a Related
             Person: (a) there shall have been (i) no reduction in the annual
             rate of dividends paid on Common Stock (except as necessary to
             reflect any subdivision of the Common Stock), expect as approved by
             two-thirds of the Continuing Directors (as hereinafter defined),
             and (ii) an increase in such annual rate of dividends as necessary
             to reflect any reclassification (including any reverse stock
             split), recapitalization, reorganization or similar transactions
             which has the effect of reducing the number of outstanding shares
             of Common Stock, unless the failure so to increase such annual rate
             is approved by two-thirds of the Continuing Directors, and (b) such
             Related person shall not have become the beneficial owner of any
             additional shares of voting stock of the Company except as part of
             the transaction which results in such Related Person becoming a
             Related Person.

        (D)  After such Related Person has become a Related Person, such Related
             Person shall not have received the benefit, directly or indirectly
             (except proportionally as a stockholder), of any loans, advances,
             guarantees, pledges or other financial assistance or any tax credit
             or other tax advantages provided by the Corporation, whether in
             anticipation of or in connection with such Business Combination
             with a Related Person or otherwise.

        (E)  A proxy or information statement describing the proposed Business
             Combination with a Related Person and complying with the
             requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules
             and regulations thereunder (or any subsequent provision replacing
             such Act, rules or regulations) shall be mailed to the public
             stockholders of the Corporation at last thirty (30) days prior to
             the consummation of such Business Combination with a Related Person
             (whether or not such proxy or information statement is required to
             be mailed pursuant to such Act or subsequent provision).

   (3)  A majority of the members of the Board of Directors acting upon such
        transaction are Continuing Directors, and at least seventy-five percent
        (75%) of the members of the Board of Directors of the Corporation shall
        have approved the Business Combination with the Related Person.

For the purposes of this section:

        (i)  The term "Business Combination" shall mean (a) the consolidation of
             the Corporation with or its merger into another corporation, (b)
             the sale, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge, transfer or other
             disposition, by the Corporation of all or any "Substantial Part"
             (as hereinafter defined) of its assets or business, (c) the merger
             into the Corporation of 
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             another corporation or corporations, (d) a "Combination" or
             "Majority Share Acquisition" in which the Corporation is the
             "Acquiring Corporation" (as such terms are hereinafter defined),
             and its Common Stock is issued or transferred in connection with
             such Combination or Majority Share Acquisition, and (e) any
             agreement, contract or other arrangement providing for any of the
             transactions described in this definition of Business Combination.

        (ii) The term "Business Combination with a Related Person" shall mean
             (a) the consolidation or merger of the Corporation or any
             Subsidiary with or into any "Related Person" (as hereinafter
             defined) or any other corporation (whether or not itself a Related
             Person) which is, or after such merger or consolidation would be,
             an Affiliate (as hereinafter defined) of a Related Person, (b) any
             sales, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge, transfer or other
             disposition (in one or a series of transactions) to or with any
             Related Person or any Affiliate of a Related Person of any
             Substantial Part of the assets or business of the Corporation or
             any Subsidiary, (c) any sale, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge,
             transfer or other disposition, of all or any Substantial Part of
             the assets of a Related Person or an Affiliate of a Related Person
             to the Corporation or a Subsidiary, (d) the issuance or transfer by
             the Corporation or a Subsidiary (in one transaction or a series of
             transactions) of any securities of the Corporation or any
             Subsidiary to any Related Person or any Affiliate of any Related
             Person, except the issuance of shares of Common Stock of the
             Corporation to The Dexter Corporation pursuant to the terms of a
             Merger Agreement, dated September 1, 1983 between the Corporation
             and Bethesda Research Laboratories, Inc., (e) any reclassification
             of securities (including any reverse stock split), or
             recapitalization of the Corporation, or any merger or consolidation
             of the Corporation with any of its Subsidiaries or any other
             transaction (whether or not with or into or otherwise involving a
             Related Person), which has the effect, directly or indirectly, of
             increasing the proportionate share of the outstanding shares of any
             class of equity or convertible securities of the Corporation or any
             Subsidiary which is directly or indirectly owned by any Related
             Person or any Affiliate of any Related Person, (f) a Combination or
             Majority Share Acquisition involving a Related Person in which the
             Corporation is the Acquiring Corporation and its Common Stock is
             issued or transferred in connection with such Combination or
             Majority Share Acquisition, and (g) any agreement, contract or
             other arrangement providing for any of the transactions described
             in this definition of Business Combination with a Related Person.

       (iii) The term "Continuing Director" shall mean any Director of the
             Corporation who is unaffiliated with the Related Person and was a
             director prior to the time the Related Person became a Related
             Person and any successor of a Continuing Director who is
             unaffiliated with the Related Person and was recommended to succeed
             a Continuing Director by at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the
             Continuing Directors.
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        (iv) The terms "Combination", "Majority Share Acquisition" and
             "Acquiring Corporation" shall have the following meanings:

                        "Combination" means a transaction, other than a merger
               or consolidation, wherein either: (1) Voting shares of a domestic
               corporation are issued or transferred in consideration whole or
               foreign, of all or substantially all the assets of one or more
               corporations, domestic or foreign, with or without good will or
               the assumption of liabilities, (2) Voting shares of a foreign
               parent corporation are issued or transferred in consideration in
               whole or in part for the transfer of such assets to one or more
               of its domestic subsidiaries.

                        "Majority share acquisition" means the acquisition of
               shares of a corporation, domestic or foreign, entitling the
               holder of the shares to exercise a majority of the voting power
               in the election of directors of such corporation without regard
               to voting power which may thereafter exist upon a default
               failure, or other contingency, either: (1) By a domestic
               corporation in consideration in whole or in part for the issuance
               or transfer of its voting shares; (2) By a domestic or foreign
               subsidiary in consideration in whole or in part for the issuance
               or transfer of voting shares of its domestic parent.

                        "Acquiring corporation" in a combination means the
               domestic corporation whose voting shares are issued or
               transferred by it or its subsidiary or subsidiaries to the
               transferor corporation or corporations or the shareholders
               thereof; and "acquiring corporation" in a majority share
               acquisition means the domestic corporation whose voting shares
               are issued or transferred by it or its subsidiary in
               consideration for shares of a domestic or foreign corporation
               entitling the holder thereof to exercise a majority of the voting
               power in the election of directors of such corporation.

        (v)    The term "Related Person" shall mean and include:  (1) any
               individual, corporation, partnership or other person or entity
               (other than the Corporation or any Subsidiary) which, together
               with its "Affiliates" and "Associates (as defined on June 1, 1983
               in Rule 12b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934), is the
               Beneficial Owner (as defined on June 1, 1983 in rule 13d-3 under
               the Securities Exchange Act of 1934), directly or indirectly, in
               the aggregate of twenty percent (20%) or more of the outstanding
               Common Stock of the Corporation; (2) any Affiliate or Associate
               of any such individual, corporation, partnership or other person
               or entity; and (3) any individual, corporation, partnership or
               other person or entity which at any time has been the Beneficial
               Owner, directly or indirectly, of more than twenty percent (20%)
               of the outstanding Common Stock of the Corporation
               notwithstanding the fact that such individual, corporation,
               partnership or other person or entity has reduced its
               stockholdings below twenty percent (20%) if, as of the record
               date for the determination of stockholders, entitled to notice of
               and to vote on the Business Combination with a 
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               Related Person, such individual, corporation, partnership or
               other person or entity is an Affiliate of the Corporation.

        (vi)   The term "Substantial Part" shall mean more than thirty percent
               (30%) of the Fair Market Value of the total assets of the
               corporation in question, as of the end of its most recent fiscal
               year ending prior to the time the determination is being made.

        (vii)  Without limitation, any share of Common Stock of the Corporation
               that any Related Person has the right to acquire pursuant to any
               agreement, or upon exercise of conversion rights, warrants or
               options, or otherwise, shall be deemed beneficially owned by the
               Related Person.

        (viii) For the purpose of subparagraph (2) of this Article EIGHTH, the
               term "other consideration to be received" shall include, without
               limitation, Common Stock of the Corporation retained by its
               existing public stockholders in the event of a business
               combination with a Related Person in which the Corporation is the
               surviving corporation.

        (ix)   The term "Subsidiary" shall mean any corporation of which a
               majority of any class of equity security is owned, directly or
               indirectly, by the Corporation.

        (x)    "Fair Market Value" shall mean: (a) in the case of stock, the
               highest closing sale price during the thirty (30) day period
               immediately preceding the date in question of a share of such
               stock on the Composite Tape for the New York Stock Exchange
               Listed Stocks, or, if such stock is not quoted on the Composite
               Tape, on the New York Stock Exchange, or, if such stock is not
               listed on such Exchange, on the principal United States
               securities exchange registered under the Securities Exchange Act
               of 1934 on which such stock is listed, or if such stock is not
               listed on any such exchange, the highest closing bid quotation
               with respect to a share of such stock during the thirty (30) day
               period immediately preceding the date in question on the National
               Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., Automated Quotations
               Systems, or any system then in use, or if no such quotations are
               available, the Fair Market Value on the date in question of a
               share of such stock as determined by the Continuing Directors in
               good faith; or (b) in the case of property other than cash or
               stock, the Fair Market Value of such property on the date in
               question as determined by the Continuing Directors in good faith.

        (xi)   The majority of the Continuing Directors shall have the power and
               duty to determine for the purposes of this reasonable inquiry,
               (a) whether a person is a Related Person, (b) the number of
               shares of voting stock of the Company beneficially owned by any
               person, (c) whether a person is an Affiliate or an Associate of
               another, and (d) what the Fair Market Value is of the
               consideration to be received for the issuance or transfer of
               securities by the Corporation or any 
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                 Subsidiary in any Business Combination or Business Combination
                 with a Related Person.

                 NINTH:  No holders of any class of shares of the Corporation
          shall have any pre-emptive right to purchase or have offered to them
          for purchase any shares or other securities of the Corporation.

                 TENTH:  The Directors of the Corporation shall be divided into
          three classes.  Each class of Directors shall consist of not fewer
          than three nor more than five Directors (provided that the whole
          number of Directors of any class shall not exceed the whole number of
          Directors of any other class by more than one).  The number of
          Directors in each class may from time to time be determined by the
          vote of at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the Directors.  The
          term of each class shall expire in different years.  At each annual
          meeting the successors to the Directors of each class whose term shall
          expire in that year shall be elected to hold office for a term of
          three (3) years from the date of their election and until the election
          of their successors.  In case of any increase in the number of
          Directors of any class, any additional Directors elected to such class
          shall hold office for a term which shall coincide with the term of
          such class.  The affirmative vote of the holders of not less than
          eighty percent (80%) of the Common Stock of the Corporation shall be
          required to remove from office any or all of such classified
          Directors, or all of the Directors of a particular class. A Director
          may be removed from office only for cause.  As used in this Article
          TENTH, the term "cause" means fraud, criminal conduct or gross abuse
          of office amounting to a breach of trust.  Any stockholder proposing
          to remove a director shall (i) request, in accordance with the
          requirements of the Bylaws of the corporation, that a special meeting
          of the stockholders be called, or notify the corporation that such
          proposal shall be presented at the annual meeting of stockholders, and
          (ii) state, in the request for such a meeting or in such notification,
          in detail all the particular reasons and circumstances as a result of
          which such removal for cause is justified.  Any director proposed to
          be so removed shall be permitted an opportunity to be heard by the
          stockholders to rebut such charges before any vote for removal is
          taken.

                 ELEVENTH:  The affirmative vote of the holders of not less than
          eighty percent (80%) of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the
          Corporation shall be necessary to alter, change or repeal any
          provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation, or to adopt
          a new Certificate of Incorporation.

                 TWELFTH:  Meetings of the stockholders may be held within or
          without the State of Delaware, as the Bylaws may provide.  The books
          of the Corporation may be kept (subject to any provisions contained in
          the statutes) outside the State of Delaware at such place or places as
          may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors or in
          the Bylaws of the Corporation.  Elections of directors need not be by
          written ballot unless the Bylaws of the Corporation shall so provide.

                 I, THE UNDERSIGNED, being the sole incorporator hereinbefore
          named, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the
          General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, do make this
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          certificate, hereby declaring and certifying that this is my act and
          deed and the facts stated herein are true, and accordingly have
          hereunto set my hand this 14th day of May, 1986.
                                    ----        ----      


                                               /s/ John D. Thompson


          STATE OF NEW YORK  )

                                ) SS.:
          COUNTY OF NEW YORK

               BE IT REMEMBERED that on this 14th day of May, 1986, personally
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               came before me, a Notary Public in and for the County and State
               aforesaid, John D. Thompson, the party executing the foregoing
               certificate of incorporation as incorporator, known to me
               personally to be such, and duly acknowledged the said certificate
               to be the act and deed of the signer and that the facts stated
               therein are true.

               IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand the day and
               year aforesaid.

                                               /s/ Roy B. Simpson, Jr.
                                               Notary Public, State of New York
                                               No. 31-4647683
                                               Qualified in New York County
                                               Commission Expires March 30, 1987
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                          CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT OF
                      THE CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF
                            LIFE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

          LIFE TECHNOLOGIES, INC., a corporation organized and existing under
and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the
"Corporation"), DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

          FIRST:  That at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Corporation
held on February 18, 1987, said Board of Directors adopted resolutions proposing
and declaring advisable a new Article THIRTEENTH to the Certificate of
Incorporation of the Corporation as follows:

          "THIRTEENTH:  No director of the Corporation shall be personally
liable to the Corporation or any of its stockholders for monetary damages for
breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach
of the director's duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii)
for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct
or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the Delaware General
Corporation Law, as the same exists or hereafter may be amended, or (iv) for any
transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.  If
the Delaware General Corporation Law hereafter is amended to authorize the
further elimination or limitation of the liability of directors, then the
liability of a director of the Corporation in addition to the limitation on
personal liability provided herein, shall be limited to the fullest extent
permitted by the amended Delaware General Corporation Law.  Any repeal or
modification of this paragraph by the stockholders of the Corporation shall be
prospective only, and shall not adversely affect any limitation on the personal
liability of a director of the corporation existing at the time of such repeal
or modification."

          SECOND:  That hereafter, pursuant to resolution of its Board of
Directors, the annual meeting of stockholders of said Corporation was duly
called and held, at which meeting the necessary number of stockholders as
required by statute voted in favor of the amendment.

          THIRD:  That said amendment was duly adopted in accordance with the
applicable provisions of Sections 211 and 242 of the General Corporation Law of
Delaware, as amended.

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, LIFE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. has caused its corporation
seal to be hereunto affixed and this certificate to be signed by its President
and attested by its Secretary this 17th day of April, 1987.

                                        LIFE TECHNOLOGIES
                                                                                

                                        By: /s/ M. James Barrett
                                            President

ATTEST:

/s/ John D. Thompson
Secretary
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                          CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT OF
                      THE CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF
                            LIFE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

          LIFE TECHNOLOGIES, INC., a corporation organized and existing under
and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the
"Corporation"), DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

          FIRST:  That at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Corporation
held on February 10, 1998, the Board of Directors of the Corporation duly
adopted a resolution setting forth a proposed amendment to Article EIGHTH of the
Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, of the Corporation (the
"Certificate"), declaring said amendment to be advisable and directing that the
proposed amendment be placed before the stockholders of the Corporation for
consideration thereof.  The resolution setting forth the proposed amendment is
as follows:

                RESOLVED, that Article EIGHTH, subsection (3)(ii), of the
                Certificate be amended to read in its entirety in the form
                attached hereto as Attachment A;

          SECOND:  That thereafter, pursuant to resolution of the Board of
Directors of the Corporation, the annual meeting of stockholders of the
Corporation was duly called and held, at which meeting the necessary number of
stockholders as required by statute and by the Certificate voted in favor of and
approved said amendment to the Certificate.

          THIRD:  That said amendment was duly adopted in accordance with the
provisions of Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware.

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, LIFE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. has caused this
certificate to be signed by its President and attested by its Secretary, who
hereby affirm, under penalties of perjury, that this certificate is the act and
deed of the Corporation and that the facts stated herein are true.

Date:  April 14, 1998                   /s/ J. Stark Thompson
                                        -----------------------------------
                                        J. Stark Thompson
                                        President

ATTEST:


/s/ Joseph C. Stokes, Jr
------------------------ 
Joseph C. Stokes, Jr.
Secretary
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                                                                    ATTACHMENT A

  (ii)  The term "Business Combination with a Related Person" shall mean (a) the
consolidation or merger of the Corporation or any Subsidiary with or into any
"Related Person" (as hereinafter defined) or any other corporation (whether or
not itself a Related Person) which is, or after such merger or consolidation
would be, an Affiliate (as hereinafter defined) of a Related Person, (b) any
sale, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge, transfer or other disposition (in one
or a series of transactions) to or with any Related Person or any Affiliate of a
Related Person of any Substantial Part of the assets or business of the
Corporation or any Subsidiary, (c) any sale, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge,
transfer or other disposition, of all or any Substantial Part of the assets of a
Related Person or an Affiliate of a Related Person to the Corporation or a
Subsidiary, (d) the issuance or transfer by the Corporation or a Subsidiary (in
one transaction or a series of transactions) of any securities of the
Corporation or any Subsidiary to any Related Person or any Affiliate of any
Related Person, except the issuance of shares of Common Stock of the Corporation
to The Dexter Corporation pursuant to the terms of a Merger Agreement, dated
September 1, 1983, between the Corporation and Bethesda Research Laboratories,
Inc., (e) any reclassification of securities (including any reverse stock
split), or recapitalization of the Corporation, or any merger or consolidation
of the Corporation with any of its Subsidiaries or any other transaction
(whether or not with or into or otherwise involving a Related Person), which has
the effect, directly or indirectly, of increasing the proportionate share of the
outstanding shares of any class of equity or convertible securities of the
Corporation or any Subsidiary which is directly or indirectly owned by any
Related Person or any Affiliate of any Related Person, except as a result of
immaterial changes due to fractional share adjustments or as a result of any
purchase or redemption of any shares of stock by the Corporation, (f) a
Combination or Majority Share Acquisition involving a Related Person in which
the Corporation is the Acquiring Corporation and its Common Stock is issued or
transferred in connection with such Combination or Majority Share Acquisition,
and (g) any agreement, contract or other arrangement providing for any of the
transactions described in this definition of Business Combination with a Related
Person.