- 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 ...
A mechanism for controlling gene expression in prokaryotes that involves premature termination of transcription.
Industry:Biotechnology
A mechanism in which the regulatory protein(s) is required to turn off gene expression.
Industry:Biotechnology
A mechanism in which the regulatory protein(s) is required to turn on gene expression.
Industry:Biotechnology
A medium or substance added to medium in which not all of the constituents or their concentrations are chemically defined, such as media containing coconut milk, malt extract, casein hydrolysate, fish emulsion or other complex compounds.
Industry:Biotechnology
A member of a family of closely related proteins that have some amino acid sequences in common and some different.
Industry:Biotechnology
A membrane-anchored phospholipid that transduces hormonal signals by stimulating the release of any of several chemical messengers.
Industry:Biotechnology
A membrane-bound sac within the cytoplasm of animal cells that contains enzymes responsible for the digestion of material in food vacuoles, the dissolution of foreign particles entering the cell and, on the death of the cell, the breaking down of all cell structures. The digestive system of the cell.
Industry:Biotechnology
A membrane-bounded specialized region within a cell, such as the mitochondrion or dictyosome, that carries out a specialized function in the life of a cell.
Industry:Biotechnology
A meristem giving rise to secondary plant tissues, such as the vascular and cork cambia. The term is sometimes used to refer to an axillary meristem.
Industry:Biotechnology
A meristematic initial in the apical meristem of shoots or roots of plants. As this cell divides, new tissues are formed.
Industry:Biotechnology
