- 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 ...
(Latin for "from the beginning, anew") Arising, anew, afresh, once more. Also <i>ex novo</i>.
Industry:Biotechnology
(Latin for "in place") Meaning in the natural place or in the original place.
1. Experimental treatments performed on cells or tissue rather than on extracts from them.
2. Assays or manipulations performed with intact tissues.
Industry:Biotechnology
1 × 10<sup>-9</sup> m. One millionth of a millimetre, a.k.a. a millimicron; equals ten angstroms.
Industry:Biotechnology
1. (General) Development of an embryo.
2. (In plants) <i>In vitro</i> formation of plants from plant tissues, through a pathway closely resembling normal embryogeny from the zygote; if this development in culture involves somatic cells and not the zygote, it can be indicated by using the term <i>adventitious embryogenesis</i> or <i>somatic embryogenesis</i>. The generation of embryos has two stages: initiation and maturation. Initiation needs a high level of the group of plant hormones called auxins; maturation needs a lower level. Other chemicals have to be at suitable levels. The procedure involves the explanting of a piece of plant tissue and putting it on a high-auxin medium, where the cells grow into a mass of callus. This is then transferred to a maturation medium, where the callus starts to initialize organs, ultimately growing a root and a shoot.
Industry:Biotechnology
1. A clump or mass formed by gathering or collecting units.
2. A body of loosely associated cells, such as a friable callus or cell suspension.
3. Coarse inert material, such as gravel, that is mixed with soil to increase its porosity.
4. A serological reaction (aggregation) in which the antibody and antigen react and precipitate out of solution.
Industry:Biotechnology
1. A compound that is altered by an enzyme.
2. Food source for growing cells or micro-organisms.
3. Material on which a sedentary organism lives and grows.
Industry:Biotechnology
