Maltodextrin is a polysaccharide that is used as a food additive. It is produced from starch by partial hydrolysis and is usually found as a white hygroscopic spray-dried powder. Maltodextrin consists of D-glucose units connected in chains of variable length. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltodextrin)
Methane fermentation is a versatile biotechnology capable of converting almost all types of polymeric materials to methane and carbon dioxide under anaerobic conditions. This is achieved as a result of the consecutive biochemical breakdown of polymers to methane and carbon dioxide in an environment in which a variety of microorganisms which include fermentative microbes (acidogens); hydrogen-producing, acetate-forming microbes (acetogens); and methane-producing microbes (methanogens) harmoniously grow and produce reduced end-products. Anaerobes play important roles in establishing a stable environment at various stages of methane fermentation. (FAO. 1997. Renewable biological systems for alternative sustainable energy production (FAO Agricultural Services Bulletin - 128)https://www.fao.org/4/w7241e/w7241e0f.htm)
Experimentation is the use of experiments to examine, test, and validate theories and hypotheses and is usually contrasted with observation. (ten Have, H., Patrão Neves, M. (2021). Experimentation (See Research Ethics). In: Dictionary of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54161-3_247)
Sequence of the repeating units of DNA or RNA. (WIPO 2020. WIPO Pearl COVID-19 Glossary https://wipopearl.wipo.int/assets/static/WIPOPearl_COVID-19_Glossary.pdf)
Carbohydrates consisting of between two (disaccharides) and ten monosaccharides connected by either an alpha- or beta-glycosidic link. They are found throughout nature in both the free and bound form. (National Library of Medicine. MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), Oligosaccharides MeSH Descriptor Data 2024. https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D009844)
The pharmaceutical industry is an industry in medicine that discovers, develops, produces, and markets pharmaceutical drugs for use as medications to be administered to patients (or self-administered), with the aim to cure and prevent diseases, or alleviate symptoms. (McGuire, John L.; Hasskarl, Horst; Bode, Gerd; Klingmann, Ingrid; Zahn, Manuel (2007). "Pharmaceuticals, General Survey". Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Wiley. doi:10.1002/14356007.a19_273.pub2. ISBN 978-3527306732. and
Bozenhardt, Erich H.; Bozenhardt, Herman F. (18 October 2018). "Are You Asking Too Much From Your Filler?". Pharmaceutical Online (Guest column). VertMarkets.)
Use of various types of fish-searching equipment and fishing gear to ascertain kinds of fish present in an area, and to obtain some idea of the magnitude of the stocks of these. (FAO. 1978. Glossary of inland fishery terms, EIFAC Occasional Paper No. 12 https://www.fao.org/4/ae987b/AE987B01.htm)
