- 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 ...
A molecule that influences the behaviour of a regulatory molecule, such as a repressor protein, thereby influencing gene expression.
Industry:Biotechnology
A monosaccharide (C<sub>5</sub>H<sub>10</sub>O<sub>5</sub>) rarely occurring free in nature, but important as a component of RNA.
Industry:Biotechnology
A mouse that has been genetically modified to incorporate an oncogene; oncogenes cause cells to undergo cancerous transformation.
Industry:Biotechnology
A multi-protein aggregate that is present in some cellulolytic micro-organisms and contains multiple copies of all the enzymes required to completely break down cellulose. This complex is often found on the outer surface of cellulolytic micro-organisms.
Industry:Biotechnology
A mutant form of a gene that eventually results in the death of an organism if expressed in the phenotype.
Industry:Biotechnology
A mutant form of a gene that eventually results in the death of an organism if expressed in the phenotype.
Industry:Biotechnology
A mutation involving the removal of one or more base pairs in DNA sequence. Large deletions are visible as the lack of chromosomal segments.
Industry:Biotechnology
A mutation that causes a body part to develop in an inappropriate position in an organism, such as the mutation in <i>Drosophila</i> that causes legs to develop on the head in place of antennae.
Industry:Biotechnology
A mutation that changes a codon for one amino acid into a codon specifying another amino acid.
Industry:Biotechnology
