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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 ...
An individual in which one part of the body is female and another part is male; a sex mosaic.
Industry:Biotechnology
An individual living system, such as animal, plant or micro-organism, that is capable of reproduction, growth and maintenance.
Industry:Biotechnology
An individual or portion thereof distinguished by a spontaneous mutation. Sports are sometimes of great agricultural worth, but alternatively, they may be disadvantageous and may be rogued during agricultural production.
Industry:Biotechnology
An individual that is heterozygous for two pairs of alleles; the progeny of a cross between homozygous parents differing at two loci.
Industry:Biotechnology
An inductor; a chemical substance in a living system that determines the fate in development of certain cells or groups of cells.
Industry:Biotechnology
An infectious virus particle. A plant pathogen that consists of a naked RNA molecule of approximately 250-350 nucleotides, whose extensive base pairing results in a nearly correct double helix.
Industry:Biotechnology
An inflorescence in which the main axis is elongated but the flowers are borne on pedicels that are about equal in length.
Industry:Biotechnology
An insect that undergoes complete metamorphosis to the adult from a morphologically distinct larval stage.
Industry:Biotechnology
