A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
A scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a given transformation matrix; the unique scalar function over square matrices which is distributive over matrix multiplication, multilinear in the rows and columns, and takes the value 1 for the unit matrix; abbreviated as: det.
Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point
Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.
The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals.
Specifically, a sweet and/or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see next sense), even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
A crazy person.
A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically