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Pharming is a merger of "farming" and "pharmaceutical" and refers to the use of genetic engineering to insert genes that code for useful pharmaceuticals into host animals or plants that would not otherwise express those genes. As a consequence, the host animals or plants then make the pharmaceutical product in large quantity, which can then be purified and used as a drug product. ...
Ãâó: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharming_(genetics)
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| phage |
A phage (also called bacteriophage) (in Greek phageton = food/consumption) is a small virus that infects only bacteria. Like viruses that infect eukaryotes, phages consist of an outer protein hull and the enclosed genetic material (which consists of double-stranded DNA in 95% of the phages known) of 5 to 650 kbp (kilo base pairs) with a length of 24 to 200 nm. The vast majority of phages (95%) have a tail to let them inject their genetic material into the host. ...
Ãâó: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage
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| phagophobia |
The English suffix -phobia is technically used to describe irrational, disabling fear as a mental disorder, and commonly misused to describe hatred of a particular thing or subject. Everyday language has misused the use of this suffix as a mild or irrational fear with no serious substance; however, its origin is from areas of psychiatry which study serious phobias which disable a person's life. ...
Ãâó: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phagophobia
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| phalanx |
The Phalanx are a fictional alien species in the Marvel Comics universe who have come in conflict with the X-Men and related groups on several occasions. They are an offshoot of the Technarchy, a race of techno-organic alien beings bent on galactic conquest. They have evolved into a collective mind, although there are still traces of individualism, such as personal names. ...
Ãâó: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_(comics)
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| pharynx |
contains the channel for both the air and the food starting at the back of the mouth
Ãâó: www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hollow/1991/medicat/me...
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