- 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 ...
1. Describing a plant or animal species whose distribution is restricted to one or a few localities.
2. Describing a disease or a pest that is always present in an area.
Industry:Biotechnology
1. Describing an allele whose effect with respect to a particular trait is the same in heterozygotes as in homozygotes. The opposite is <i>recessive</i>.
2. Describing the most conspicuously abundant and characteristic species of a community.
3. Describing an animal that is allowed priority in access to food, mates, etc., by others of its species because of its success in previous aggressive encounters.
Industry:Biotechnology
1. Developing or blooming in succession towards the apex, such as leaves or flowers developing acropetally.
2. Transport or movement of substances towards the apex, such as the movement of water through the plant.
The opposite tendency is termed basipetal.
Industry:Biotechnology
1. Differential survival and reproduction phenotypes.
2. A system for either isolating or identifying specific organisms in a mixed culture.
Industry:Biotechnology
1. Early steps or stages of a tissue culture process (culture growth, organogenesis, embryogenesis)
2. Early stages of biosynthesis.
Industry:Biotechnology
1. Emergence of an adult insect from the pupal stage.
2. Beginning of germination of fungal spores.
Industry:Biotechnology
1. Enlarged basal portion of the pistil of a plant flower that contains the ovules.
2. The reproduction organ in female animals in which eggs (ova) are produced.
Industry:Biotechnology
1. Enzymatic methylation of a restriction enzyme DNA recognition site.
2. Specific nucleotide changes in DNA or RNA molecules.
Industry:Biotechnology
1. Fixed conditions of medium, environment and protocol for growth.
2. Precisely known and stated elements of a tissue culture medium.
Industry:Biotechnology
1. For diagnostic tests, the agent that is used to detect the presence of a molecule in a sample.
2. A DNA or RNA sequence labelled or marked with a radioactive isotope or that is used to detect the presence of a complementary sequence by hybridization with a nucleic acid sample.
Industry:Biotechnology
