fine art. n. 1. (Art Terms) art produced chiefly for its aesthetic value, as opposed to applied art. 2. (Art Terms) Also called: beaux arts (often plural) any of the fields in which such art is produced, such as painting, sculpture, and engraving.
Metaphase is the second stage of cell division. At the metaphase plate, sister chromatids are attached to the bundle of four to eight spindle fibers.
Metagenomics allows researchers to access the functional and metabolic diversity of microbial communities, but it cannot show which of these processes are active. [39] The extraction and analysis of metagenomic mRNA (the metatranscriptome) provides information on the regulation and expression profiles of complex communities.