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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 population or a strain of an organism that is adapted to a particular habitat.
Industry:Biotechnology
A portion of fusion protein that facilitates its identification or purification.
Industry:Biotechnology
A prefix derived from <i>bios</i> and used in scientific words to associate the concept of "living organisms." Usually written with a hyphen before vowels, for emphasis or in neologisms; otherwise usually without a hyphen.
Industry:Biotechnology
A preparation of dead or weakened pathogens, or of derived antigenic determinants, that is used to induce formation of antibodies or immunity against the pathogen.
Industry:Biotechnology
A primary transcript (RNA) that contains a coding region (contiguous sequence of codons) that is translated to produce a polypeptide.
Industry:Biotechnology
A probe that hybridizes to a number of different sites in the genome of an organism.
Industry:Biotechnology
A procedure for duplicating the bacterial colonies growing on agar medium in one Petri plate to agar medium in another Petri plate.
Industry:Biotechnology
A procedure for labelling DNA. A DNA fragment is treated with DNase to produce single-stranded nicks. The nick is moved along the DNA molecule in the presence of labelled deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates by the concerted action of the 5´-> 3´ exonuclease and 5´-> 3´ polymerase activities of <i>E. coli</i> DNA polymerase I.
Industry:Biotechnology
