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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Industry: Agriculture
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Established in October 1945 with the objective of eliminating hunger and improving nutrition and standards of living by increasing agricultural productivity, FAO coordinates the efforts of governments and technical agencies in programs for developing agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and land and ...
A condition in which heterozygotes are superior (on some scale of measurement) to either of the associated homozygotes.
Industry:Biotechnology
A condition of only partial fertility in plant zygotes; usually associated with translocations.
Industry:Biotechnology
A conical flat-bottomed laboratory flask with a narrow neck, designed by E. Erlenmeyer. Widely used for culturing micro-organisms.
Industry:Biotechnology
A conservation method that attempts to preserve the integrity of genetic resources by conserving them within the evolutionary dynamic ecosystems of their original habitat or natural environment. <i>cf ex situ</i> conservation.
Industry:Biotechnology
A conservation method which entails the actual removal of germplasm resources (seeds, pollen, sperm, individual organisms) from the original habitat or natural environment.
Industry:Biotechnology
A conserved adenine- and thymine-rich promoter sequence located 25-30 bp upstream of a gene, which is the binding site of RNA polymerase.
Industry:Biotechnology
A conserved sequence in prokaryotic mRNAs that is complementary to a sequence near the 5´ terminus of the 16S ribosomal RNA and is involved in the initiation of translation.
Industry:Biotechnology
A constant mutation rate that adds mutant genes to a population; repeated occurrences of mutations in a population.
Industry:Biotechnology
A continuous and open culture in which growth rate and cell density are maintained constant by a fixed rate of input of a growth-limiting nutrient.
Industry:Biotechnology
A continuous culture in which inflow of fresh medium is balanced by outflow of a corresponding volume of culture. Cells are constantly washed out with the outflowing liquid. In a steady state, the rate of cell wash-out equals the rate of formation of new cells in the system.
Industry:Biotechnology