- 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 ...
An apparatus in which environmental conditions (light, photoperiod, temperature, humidity, etc.) are fully controlled, and used for hatching eggs, multiplying micro-organisms, culturing plants, etc.
Industry:Biotechnology
An apparatus that extracts heat from a fluid or gas that is marginally above ambient temperature. Heat pumps are commonly used to heat (or cool) greenhouses and laboratories.
Industry:Biotechnology
An assay system which detects proteins by using an antibody specific to that protein. A positive result is seen as a precipitate of an antibody-protein complex. The antibody can be linked to a radioactive atom or to an enzyme which catalyses an easily monitored reaction such as a change in colour.
Industry:Biotechnology
An assay system which detects proteins by using an antibody specific to that protein. A positive result is seen as a precipitate of an antibody-protein complex. The antibody can be linked to a radioactive atom or to an enzyme which catalyses an easily monitored reaction such as a change in colour.
Industry:Biotechnology
An assembly of vesicles and folded membranes within the cytoplasm of plant and animal cells that stores and transports secretory products (such as enzymes and hormones) and plays a role in formation of a cell wall (when this is present). It is named after its discoverer, the Italian cytologist Camillo Golgi (1843-1926).
Industry:Biotechnology
An early animal embryo consisting of two layers of cells; an embryological stage following the blastula.
Industry:Biotechnology
An effect attributable to some aspect of performance of the mother of the individual being evaluated.
Industry:Biotechnology
An effector molecule that forms a complex with a repressor and turns off the expression of a gene or set of genes.
Industry:Biotechnology
An embryo which has developed vegetatively from somatic tissue surrounding the embryo sac, rather than by fertilization of the egg cell.
Industry:Biotechnology
