- 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 gene that allows the host cell to survive under conditions where it would otherwise die.
Industry:Biotechnology
A gene that causes cells to grow in an uncontrolled manner, i.e., that causes cancer. Oncogenes are mutant forms of normal functional genes (called proto-oncogenes) that have a role in normal cell proliferation. Oncogenes are found in tumours and in retroviruses; in the latter case, having been picked up along with retroviral genes during retroviral replication in the host. Once incorporated as part of the retroviral genome, they are activated at inappropriate times and places by retroviral promoters, thereby becoming oncogenes.
Industry:Biotechnology
A gene that encodes a product that can readily be assayed. Thus reporter genes are used to determinate whether a particular DNA construct has been successfully introduced into a cell, organ or tissue.
Industry:Biotechnology
A gene that functions to define the anterior and posterior components of body segments in <i>Drosophila</i>.
Industry:Biotechnology
A gene that has been positioned on both the physical map and the linkage map of a chromosome.
Industry:Biotechnology
A gene that influences the formation of body segments in <i>Drosophila.</i>
Industry:Biotechnology
A gene that is constructed from parts of two or more different genes and allows the host cell to survive under conditions where it would otherwise die.
Industry:Biotechnology
A gene that is continually expressed in all cells of an organism.
Industry:Biotechnology
A gene that is expressed only in the presence of a specific metabolite, the inducer.
Industry:Biotechnology
A gene that is likely to be located in the same region as a DNA marker that has been shown to be linked to a single-locus trait or to a quantitative trait locus (QTL), where the gene's likely location in the genome of the species in question is based on its known location in the map of another species, i.e., is based on the comparative map between the two species.
Industry:Biotechnology
