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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 ...
The host organism used for the replication or expression of a cloned gene or other sequence The term is little used and is often confused with vector.
Industry:Biotechnology
The hydrogen bonding of a single-stranded DNA sequence that is partially but not entirely complementary to a single-stranded substrate. Often, this involves hybridizing a DNA probe for a specific DNA sequence to the homologous sequences of different species.
Industry:Biotechnology
The hydroxyl group that is attached to the 3´ carbon atom of the sugar (ribose or deoxyribose) of the terminal nucleotide of a nucleic acid molecule.
Industry:Biotechnology
The immune response that occurs during the first encounter of a mammal with a given antigen. <i>cf</i> secondary immune response.
Industry:Biotechnology
The improvement of poor soils, usually using bacteria or fungi. This contrasts with bioremediation, which is the cleaning up of toxins, usually in soils. Amelioration includes breaking down organic matter; forming humus; by solubilizing them, making minerals - such as phosphates - in the soil available to plants; fixing nitrogen; and sometimes an element of bioremediation as well.
Industry:Biotechnology
The inclusion or exclusion of different exons to form different mRNA transcripts.
Industry:Biotechnology
The incorporation of a transgene into a chromosome at its normal location by homologous recombination, thus replacing the copy of the gene originally present at the locus.
Industry:Biotechnology
The incorporation of bacterial genes into F factors and their subsequent transfer, by conjugation, to a recipient cell.
Industry:Biotechnology
The incorporation of nitrogen into organic cell substances by living organisms.
Industry:Biotechnology
