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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 specialized region of a living cell, situated next to the nucleus, where micro-tubules are assembled and broken down during cell division. The centrosome of most animal cells contains a pair of centrioles. During metaphase the centrosome separates into two regions, each containing one of the centrioles.
Industry:Biotechnology
A species or type of plant derived from doubling the chromosomes in the F<sub>1</sub> hybrid of two species; an allopolyploid. In an amphidiploid the two species are known, whereas in other allopolyploids they may not be known.
Industry:Biotechnology
A specific chemical domain on an antigen that stimulates the production of, and is recognized by, an antibody. Each epitope on a molecule such as protein elicits the synthesis of a different antibody. a.k.a. antigenic determinant.
Industry:Biotechnology
A specifically produced response compared to the response level when no specific stimulus (activity) is present.
Industry:Biotechnology
A stage in the processing of mRNA, occurring only in eukaryote cells, in which intervening sequences (introns) are removed from the primary RNA transcript (hnRNA), and the coding exons are joined together to form the mature mRNA molecule.
Industry:Biotechnology
A stage of meiosis just before metaphase I, in which the separation of homologous chromosomes is almost completed.
Industry:Biotechnology
A statistical measure of variability in a population of individuals or in a set of data; the square root of the variance.
Industry:Biotechnology
