- 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 recombinant organism into which antigenic determinants have been cloned from a number of different disease-causing organisms, and used as a vaccine.
Industry:Biotechnology
A recombinant protein that has all the properties - including any post-translational modifications - of its naturally occurring counterpart.
Industry:Biotechnology
A recombination-dependent mechanism for repairing damaged DNA.
Industry:Biotechnology
A reflection of the form and location of nutritional elements and their suitability for absorption. In tissue culture media this is related to the abundance of each nutritional element, the osmotic concentration and pH of the medium, the stability and solubility of the item in question, the presence of absorbing agents in the media, and other factors.
Industry:Biotechnology
A region of a protein that varies considerably between strains or individuals.
Industry:Biotechnology
A region of meristematic tissue with the potential for developing into leaves, shoots, flowers or combinations; generally protected by modified scale leaves. A terminal (or apical) bud exists at the tip of a stem or branch, while axillary (or lateral) buds develop in the axils of leaves.
Industry:Biotechnology
A region of the tip of each shoot and root of a plant in which cell division is continually occurring to produce new stem and root tissue, respectively. Two regions are visible in the apical meristem: (i) An outer 1-4-cell layered region (called the tunica), where cell divisions are anticlinal, i.e., perpendicular to the surface; and below the tunica, (ii) the corpus, where the cells divide in all directions, giving them an increase in volume.
Industry:Biotechnology
A regulatory DNA sequence that initiates the expression of a gene.
Industry:Biotechnology
A relationship in which the units in one molecule occur in the same sequence as the units in another molecule which they specify; e.g., the nucleotides in a gene are co-linear with the amino acids in the polypeptide encoded by that gene.
Industry:Biotechnology
A relatively weak bond formed between a hydrogen atom (which is covalently bound to a nitrogen or oxygen atom) and a nitrogen or oxygen atom with an unshared electron pair. Weak interactions between electro-negative atoms and hydrogen atoms (electro-positive) that are linked to other electro-negative atoms.
Industry:Biotechnology
