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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 ...
Solutions having the same osmotic potential; the same molar concentration. For protoplasts to survive, the medium they are suspended in must be isotonic with them.
Industry:Biotechnology
Something, usually a virus, that is present in a host organism without producing any symptoms.
Industry:Biotechnology
Specialized epidermal cell that occurs as a pair around a stoma and controls opening and closing of the stoma through changes in turgor.
Industry:Biotechnology
Speciation occurring at least in part because of geographic isolation.
Industry:Biotechnology
Sperm mother cell. The cell that undergoes two meiotic divisions (spermatogenesis) to form four spermatids; the <i>primary</i> spermatocyte before completion of the first meiotic division; the <i>secondary</i> spermatocyte after completion of the first meiotic division.
Industry:Biotechnology
Spherical sub-units of eukaryotic chromatin that are composed of a core particle consisting of an octamer of histones (two molecules each of histones H<sub>2a</sub>, H<sub>2b</sub>, H<sub>3</sub> and H<sub>4</sub>) and 146 nucleotide pairs.
Industry:Biotechnology
Splitting at about monthly intervals of excised shoot-tip material growing on culture medium, in order to induce additional plantlets.
Industry:Biotechnology
Stage III in tissue culture micropropagation; the rooting, hardening stage prior to transfer to soil.
Industry:Biotechnology
Staining of chromosomes in such a way that light and dark areas occur along the length of the chromosomes in repeatable patterns. Lateral comparisons identify pairs. Each chromosome can be identified by its banding pattern.
Industry:Biotechnology
Start triplets in different reading frames generate different polypeptides from the same DNA sequence.
Industry:Biotechnology
