- 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 mutation that changes the nucleotide sequence of a gene but has negligible effect on the fitness of the organism.
Industry:Biotechnology
A mutation that changes the reading frame of an mRNA, either by inserting or deleting nucleotides.
Industry:Biotechnology
A mutation that influences the functioning of genes that are downstream in the same transcription unit.
Industry:Biotechnology
A mutation that is lethal under one set of environmental conditions - the restrictive conditions - but is viable under another set of environmental conditions - the permissive conditions, e.g., temperature-sensitive mutations.
Industry:Biotechnology
A mutation that partially or completely cancels the phenotypic effect of another mutation.
Industry:Biotechnology
A mutation that reduces but does not completely abolish gene expression.
Industry:Biotechnology
A mutation which converts an amino-acid-specifying codon into a stop codon, e.g., a change from UAU (tyr) to UAG (amber) would lead to the premature termination of a polypeptide chain at the place where a tyrosine was inserted in the wild-type.
Industry:Biotechnology
A natural, interbreeding unit of sexually reproducing plants or animals sharing a common gene pool.
Industry:Biotechnology
