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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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 ...
The vertical axis of a graph. Opposite: absciss; abscissa.
Industry:Biotechnology
The volume of growing cells that is removed from a bioreactor during a continuous fermentation process.
Industry:Biotechnology
The volume of soil or growing medium containing the roots of a plant. In soil science, the depth of the soil profile in which roots are normally found.
Industry:Biotechnology
The weight of a constituent in 100 cm<sup>3</sup> of solution, expressed as a percentage.
Industry:Biotechnology
The weight, including the water content, of a plant or plant part at the time of harvest. <i>cf</i> wet weight.
Industry:Biotechnology
The yeasts, and especially <i>Saccaromyces cerevisiae</i>, are favourite organisms in which to clone and express DNA. They are eukaryotes, and so can splice out introns, the non-coding sequences in the middle of many eukaryotic genes.
Industry:Biotechnology
They are codes of practice designed to reduce to a minimum the chance of accidents which could affect a manufactured product. The GMP prescriptions are quite voluminous, but boil down to a few key points. The essential point of GMP is that everything is recorded, and that only established procedures are used and by people who have been trained to use them.
Industry:Biotechnology
They are codes of practice designed to reduce to a minimum the chance of accidents which could affect a research project. The GLP prescriptions are quite voluminous, but boil down to a few key points. The essential point of GLP is that everything is recorded, and that only established procedures are used and by people who have been trained to use them.
Industry:Biotechnology
Thickened root that stores carbohydrates.
Industry:Biotechnology
Thin films made up of liquids (as opposed to solids) which are stable in another liquid (usually water). Thus the liquid must not dissolve in the water, but nevertheless must be prevented from collapsing into a lot of small droplets.
Industry:Biotechnology