- 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 ...
Degree of expression of a trait controlled by a gene. A particular gene may show different degrees of expression in different individuals.
Industry:Biotechnology
Deliberately introduce something into. The process is inoculation. Not the same as <i>contamination</i>.
1. In bacteriology, tissue culture, etc., placing inoculum into (or onto) medium to initiate a culture.
2. In immunology, to immunize.
Industry:Biotechnology
Delivery into eukaryotic cells of DNA, RNA or other compounds that have been encapsulated in an artificial phospholipid vesicle.
Industry:Biotechnology
Delivery to a host organism of a cloned gene that encodes an antigen. After the cloned gene is expressed, it elicits an antibody response that protects the organism from infection by a virus, bacterium or other disease-causing organism.
Industry:Biotechnology
Denoting plant species that have separate male and female flowers on the same plant (e.g<i>.,</i> maize).
Industry:Biotechnology
Deposition of secondary cell wall materials which result in an increase in thickness in stems and roots.
Industry:Biotechnology
Derived from a strain by isolating a single cell or groups of cells having properties or markers not shared by all cells of the strain.
Industry:Biotechnology
Describes the coiling of the antiparallel strands of the DNA molecule, resembling a spiral staircase in which the paired bases form the steps and the sugar-phosphate backbones form the rails.
Industry:Biotechnology
Describes the developmental process whereby each successive stage of normal development is built up on the foundations created by the preceding stages of development; an embryo is built up from a zygote, a seedling from an embryo, and so on.
Industry:Biotechnology
Describing a fruit or fruiting body that does not open to release its seeds or spores when ripe.
Industry:Biotechnology
