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The distinctive component of eukaryotic cells. It is surrounded by a double membrane, and in which the majority of the genetic material of the cell is organized as chromosomes.
Industry:Agriculture
The building block of nucleic acids which consists of a phosphate group linked to a five-carbon-atom sugar which in turn is joined to a nitrogen-containing base (either cytosine, guanine, adenine, thymine, or uracil).
Industry:Agriculture
Any of a class of conjugated proteins that are combinations of a protein and a nucleic acid, that occur in all living cells in the nuclei or the cytoplasm, and may constitute either the whole or the essential portion of genes and viruses (e.g. tobacco mosaic virus).
Industry:Agriculture
A herbicide that kills all vegetation with which it comes in contact.
Industry:Agriculture
A type of plant resistance to pests wherein insects do not like to feed upon, oviposit in, or use the plant for shelter.
Industry:Agriculture
A procedure in which single-stranded nucleic acid segments are combined to form double-stranded segments through complementarity of base sequences; a technique to assess the extent of sequence homology among the nucleic acid segments.
Industry:Agriculture
A procedure whereby a crop is planted directly into a seedbed, not tilled since the harvest of the previous crop.
Industry:Agriculture
A small wedge-shaped depression which occurs at the middle portion of the abdominal side of brown rice.
Industry:Agriculture
Method to detect RNA by use of a probe (c.f., southern hybridization).
Industry:Agriculture
