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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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 ...
Disease caused by infection with organisms of the genus <i>Brucella</i>.
Industry:Biotechnology
Disease-indexed organisms have been assayed for the presence of known diseases according to standard testing procedures.
Industry:Biotechnology
Disorder in which the immune systems of affected individuals produce antibodies against molecules that are normally produced by those individuals (called self antigens).
Industry:Biotechnology
Disruption of cells or DNA molecules by high frequency sound waves. a.k.a. ultrasonication.
Industry:Biotechnology
Division and transfer of a portion or inoculum of a culture to fresh medium. Sometimes used to denote the adding of fresh liquid to a suspension culture.
Industry:Biotechnology
DNA of undefined sequence content which is added to the transforming (plasmid) DNA used in physical DNA-transfer procedures. This additional DNA increases the efficiency of transformation in electroporation and chemically mediated DNA-delivery systems. The mechanism responsible for this effect is not known.
Industry:Biotechnology
DNA polymerase that provides primers for the DNA polymerization. Unlike RNA polymerase, DNA polymerase is unable to initiate the <i>de novo</i> synthesis of a polynucleotide chain. DNA polymerase can only add nucleotides to a free 3´ hydroxyl group at the end of a pre-existing chain. A short oligonucleotide, known as a primer, is therefore needed to supply such a hydroxyl group for the initiation of DNA synthesis.
Industry:Biotechnology
DNA repair processes that correct mismatched base pairs.
Industry:Biotechnology
DNA repair processes that involve the removal of a damaged or incorrect segment of DNA and its replacement by the synthesis of a new strand using the complementary strand of DNA as template.
Industry:Biotechnology
DNA sequences located between genes; they comprise a large percentage of a genome and have no known function.
Industry:Biotechnology