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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 ...
The name adopted by Tulecke in 1965 for an apparatus designed for the semi-continuous chemostat culture of plant cells.
Industry:Biotechnology
The non-staining or slightly chromophilic, liquid or semi-liquid, ground substance of the interphase nucleus and which fills the nuclear space around the chromosomes and the nucleoli. Little is known of the chemical composition of this ground substance, which is not easily defined. It may be called "karyoplasm" when it is gel-like, and "karyolymph" when it is a colloidal fluid, but generally the terms are synonymous.
Industry:Biotechnology
The normal arrangement of the two strands of a DNA molecule, and of other nucleic-acid duplexes (DNA-RNA, RNA-RNA), in which the two strands are oriented in opposite directions so that the 5´-phosphate end of one strand is aligned with the 3´-hydroxyl end of the complementary strand.
Industry:Biotechnology
The normal form of DNA found in biological systems. It exists as a right-handed helix.
Industry:Biotechnology
The nucleotide sequence at which DNA synthesis (replication) is initiated.
Industry:Biotechnology
The nucleotide sequence that is present in the majority of genetic signals or elements that perform a specific function.
Industry:Biotechnology
The number of cells that take up foreign DNA as a function of the amount of added DNA; expressed as transformants per microgram of added DNA.
Industry:Biotechnology
