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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 ...
Conversion of a process, such as fermentation of a micro-organism, from a small scale to a larger scale.
Industry:Biotechnology
Conversion of one chemical into another by living organisms, as opposed to their conversion by enzymes (which is biotransformation) or by chemical processes. The usefulness of bioconversion is much the same as that of biotransformation - in particular its extreme specificity and ability to work in moderate conditions. However, bioconversion has several other properties, including the possibility of having several chemical steps. A major commercial application is in the manufacture of steroids. The "basic" steroid molecule, often isolated from plants, is itself a very complicated molecule, and not one that is easy to modify by normal chemical means to produce the very specific molecules needed for drug use. However, a particular type of bioconversion that attacks only specific bits of the molecule can be used. Bioconversion is particularly useful for introducing chemical changes at specific points in large, complex molecules.
Industry:Biotechnology
Correlated regulation of the structural genes in an operon by a molecule that interacts with the operator sequence.
Industry:Biotechnology
Crosses between the same two strains, but with the sexes reversed; e.g., female A × male B and male A × female B.
Industry:Biotechnology
Crossing an organism with one of its parents or with the genetically equivalent organism. The offspring of such a cross are referred to as the backcross generation or backcross progeny.
Industry:Biotechnology
Crossing of siblings. Matings involving two individuals of the same parentage; brother-sister matings.
Industry:Biotechnology
Crossing over at one point that alters the chance of another crossing-over nearby; detected by studying the pattern of crossings-over with three or more linked genes. Interference is positive or negative depending on whether the chance of another crossing-over nearby is reduced or increased, respectively.
Industry:Biotechnology
Crossing over between repeated DNA sequences that have paired out of register, creating duplicated and deficient products.
Industry:Biotechnology
Culture in bioreactors of microalgae; microalgae include seaweeds.
Industry:Biotechnology
Culture of cells or micro-organisms where nutrients are added periodically to the bioreactor.
Industry:Biotechnology
