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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 culture started from cells, tissues or organs taken directly from organisms. A primary culture may be regarded as such until it is sub-cultured for the first time. It then becomes a cell line.
Industry:Biotechnology
A cupboard used for incubating tubes or culture vessels under controlled environmental conditions. The degree of control over temperature, light and humidity is a function of the quality of the cabinet.
Industry:Biotechnology
A cutting that includes a short section of stem with attached leaf.
Industry:Biotechnology
A cyclic, nitrogen-containing compound that is one of the essential components of nucleic acids. Exists in five main forms (adenine, A; guanine, G; thymine, T; cytosine, C; uracil, U). A and G have a similar structure and are called purines; T, C and U have a similar structure and are called pyrimidines. A base joined to a ribose sugar joined to a phosphate group is a nucleotide - the building block of nucleic acids.
Industry:Biotechnology
A cylindrical fermentation vessel in which the cells are mixed by air introduced at the base of the vessel and that rises through the column of culture medium. The cell suspension circulates around the column as a consequence of the gradient of air bubbles in different parts of the reactor.
Industry:Biotechnology
A cytoplasmic hybrid, originating from the fusion of a cytoplast (the cytoplasm without nucleus) with a whole cell, as in nuclear transfer (although the term is not used in that context). Note that the nucleus and cytoplasm of the fused cell products are from different genetic sources.
Industry:Biotechnology
A databank that contains inventories of farm animal genetic resources and their immediate wild relatives, including any information that helps to characterize these resources.
Industry:Biotechnology
A device in which solid or liquid particles of different densities are separated by rotating them in a tube in a horizontal circle. The denser particles tend to move along the length of the tube to a greater radius of rotation, displacing the lighter particles to the other end.
Industry:Biotechnology
A device that introduces into a bioreactor air in the form of separate fine streams.
Industry:Biotechnology
A device that uses an immobilized agent (such as an enzyme, antibiotic, organelle or whole cell) to detect or measure a chemical compound. A reaction between the immobilized agent and the molecule being analysed is transduced into an electric signal.
Industry:Biotechnology
