- Industry: Agriculture
- Number of terms: 87409
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
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 nucleus with unreduced or doubled chromosome number that results from the failure of a meiotic or mitotic division.
Industry:Biotechnology
A number expressing the amount of some change or effect under certain conditions (e.g., the coefficient of inbreeding).
Industry:Biotechnology
A nutrient is essential when it is mandatory for growth, development and reproduction. In tissue culture, it comprises inorganic salts, including all of the elements necessary for plant metabolism; organic factors (amino acids, vitamins); usually also endogenous plant growth regulators (auxins, cytokinins and often gibberellins); as well as a carbon source (sucrose or glucose).
Industry:Biotechnology
A pair of synapsed or associated homologous chromosomes (one of maternal origin; the other of paternal origin) that have each undergone duplication. Each duplicated chromosome comprises two chromatids. Thus a bivalent comprises four chromatids.
Industry:Biotechnology
A pathway by which a metabolite is synthesized; a biosynthetic pathway.
Industry:Biotechnology
A pathway by which an organic molecule is degraded in order to release energy for growth and other cellular processes; degradative pathway.
Industry:Biotechnology
A pattern of stem elongation typical of grasses. Elongation proceeds from the lower internodes to the upper internodes through the differentiation of meristematic tissue at the base of each internode.
Industry:Biotechnology
A penicillin-derived antibiotic that prevents bacterial growth by interfering with synthesis of the cell wall.
Industry:Biotechnology
A peptide hormone secreted by the Langerhans islets of the pancreas, and that regulates the level of sugar in the blood.
Industry:Biotechnology
