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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 ...
Genetic defect due to defective functions of mitochondria in the pollen. Fertilization will not occur. Exploited in certain plant breeding strategies, such as F<sub>1</sub>-hybrid maize cultivars.
Industry:Biotechnology
Genetic material that is stained less intensely by certain dyes during interphase, and that comprises many different kinds of genes.
Industry:Biotechnology
Genotypically or cytoplasmically different tissues arranged in concentric layers.
Industry:Biotechnology
Giant chromosomes produced by interphase replication without division, and consisting of many identical chromatids arranged side by side in a cablelike pattern.
Industry:Biotechnology
Glucose-mediated reduction in the rates of transcription of operons that encode enzymes involved in catabolic pathways (such as the <i>lac</i> operon).
Industry:Biotechnology
Granular cytoplasmic structure which forms the base of a cilium or flagellum.
Industry:Biotechnology