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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 ...
(OsO<sub>4</sub>; f.w. 254.20) A fixing agent commonly used to prepare tissue samples for electron microscopy.
Industry:Biotechnology
(C<sub>4</sub>H<sub>8</sub>N<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>) One of the 20 essential amino acids. It is occasionally included in plant tissue culture media as a source of reduced nitrogen.
Industry:Biotechnology
A resistant spore developing from a zygote, resulting from the fusion of heterogametes in certain algae and fungi.
Industry:Biotechnology
A cell or organism containing only one representative from each of the pairs of homologous chromosomes found in the normal diploid cell. Having a single complete set of chromosomes, or referring to an individual or generation containing such a single set of chromosomes per cell. Usually a gamete.
Industry:Biotechnology
A microscope which uses an electron beam to obtain images of objects, with a much greater resolving power than a light microscope.
Industry:Biotechnology
Sequence of reactions that converts glucose into pyruvate, with the concomitant production of ATP.
Industry:Biotechnology
A bacterial or plant cell for which the relatively rigid wall has been removed either chemically or enzymatically, leaving its cytoplasm enveloped by only a delicate peripheral membrane. Protoplasts are spherical and smaller than the elongate, angular shaped and often vacuolated cells from which they have been released.
Industry:Biotechnology
A filter capable of screening out particles larger than 0.3 µm. HEPA filters are used in laminar air flow cabinets (hoods) for sterile transfer work.
Industry:Biotechnology
