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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 type of white blood cell (leucocyte), produced by stem cells in the red bone marrow.
Industry:Biotechnology
A type or phase of the virus life cycle during which the virus integrates into the host chromosome of the infected cell, remaining essentially dormant for some period of time.
Industry:Biotechnology
A unicellular ascomycete fungus, commonly found as a contaminant in plant tissue culture.
Industry:Biotechnology
A unique identifier consisting of a genus and a species name (the specific epithet) in Latin, assigned to each recognized and described species of organism. Based on the Linnean system of classification. Susceptible to considerable blurring at the edges because, as Darwin came to realize, nature has not packaged living things into neatly discrete entities.
Industry:Biotechnology
A unique restriction site in a vector DNA molecule into which foreign DNA can be inserted. The term is also used to describe the position of integration of a transposon or insertion site element.
Industry:Biotechnology
A unique restriction site in a vector DNA molecule into which foreign DNA can be inserted. The term is also used to describe the position of integration of a transposon or insertion site element.
Industry:Biotechnology
A unit used for pressure of fluid. 1 bar = 10<sup>5</sup> Pa. 1 bar is approximately equivalent to 1 atmosphere.
Industry:Biotechnology
A variant of a particular enzyme. In general, all the isozymes of a particular enzyme have the same function and sometimes the same activity, but they differ in amino-acid sequence. With the help of isozyme analysis, based on electrophoresis techniques that can separate the different variants, related species or cultivars can be distinguished.
Industry:Biotechnology
