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Pots made from wood pulp and peat, commonly used for transplanting tissue culture -derived plants into soil medium.
- Browse Related Terms: artificial medium, bridge, chemically-defined medium, defined, exotoxin, explant, fortify, free-living conditions, habituation, isolation medium, Jiffy potä, Media, nutrient gradient, organ culture, osmoticum, passage, production environment, reversal transfer, serial float culture, spent medium, Steward bottle, suspension culture, Tissue culture
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Abbreviation for juvenile in vitro embryo technology.
- Browse Related Terms: amnion, dissecting microscope, embryo technology, embryogenesis, EMT, epigenesis, JIVET, nucellus, Parthenogenesis, polar nuclei, polyembryony, precocious germination, sexed embryos, somatic cell embryogenesis, somatic embryo, synergid
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Abbreviation for juvenile in vitro embryo technology.
- Browse Related Terms: GURT, IVEP, IVF, IVM, JIVT, recombinant human
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A small DNA segment that links genes to yield a functional gene encoding an immunogobulin.
- Browse Related Terms: Drosophila melanogaster, Joining (J) segment, joining segment, major histocompatibility complex, pair-rule gene, recombinant toxin, segment-polarity gene, T cell receptor, tribrid protein
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(Abbreviation: J). A small DNA segment that links genes in order to yield a functional gene encoding an immunoglobulin.
- Browse Related Terms: Drosophila melanogaster, Joining (J) segment, joining segment, major histocompatibility complex, pair-rule gene, recombinant toxin, segment-polarity gene, T cell receptor, tribrid protein
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See: transposable element.
- Browse Related Terms: insertion sequence, IS element, jumping gene, long interspersed nuclear element, retro-element, retroposon, target site duplication, transposon
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See: chromosome jumping.
- Browse Related Terms: balanced lethal system, chromomeres, chromonema, chromosome banding, chromosome mutation, compound chromosome, endomitosis, endoreduplication, fluorescence in situ hybridization, gene insertion, gene replacement, genome, hybrid dysgenesis, Independent assortment, jumping library, karyogram, lampbrush chromosome, locus, Locus (plural = loci), meiotic drive, paternal, polymorphism, Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), tetrasomic, walking, X-linked, zoo FISH
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See: repetitive DNA.
- Browse Related Terms: biochip, dendrimer, DNA vaccine, gyrase, Junk DNA, ligase, Ligate, non-coding strand, nuclein, photoreactivation, sub-clone, topo-isomerase, Transfer DNA, Tumor DNA, zig-zag DNA
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A hormone secreted by insects from a pair of endocrine glands close to the brain. Its function is to inhibit metamorphosis so maintaining the larval features.
- Browse Related Terms: chromocentre, endocrine gland, FSH, Human growth hormone (HGH, somatotrophin), inositol lipid, juvenile hormone, luteinizing hormone, prolactin
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(Abbreviation: JIVT or JIVET). A technology involving collection of immature eggs from young animals, their in vitro maturation and fertilization, and the transfer of the resultant embryos into recipient females. The method is designed to achieve rapid generation turnover.
- Browse Related Terms: blastocyst, egg, embryo, endosperm mother cell, Germ line gene therapy, juvenile in vitro embryo technology, nucellar embryo, Phase Change, polyspermy, primary, pro-embryo, pro-nuclear micro-injection
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Early phase of development in which an organism is incapable of sexual reproduction.
- Browse Related Terms: ascus, asexual propagation, breeding, juvenility, karyogamy, meiosis, Mendelian population, parasexual cycle, propagule, rejuvenation, reproduction, sex hormones, transition stage