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What is biotechnology?
Biotechnology = bios (life) + logos (study of or essence)
Literally 'the study of tools from living things'
CLASSIC: The word "biotechnology" was first used in 1917 to
describe processes using living organisms to make a product or
run a process, such as industrial fermentations
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Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary an in nature, involving
input from
• Engineering
• Computer Science
• Cell and Molecular Biology
• Microbiology
• Genetics
• Physiology
• Biochemistry
• Immunology
• Virology

• Recombinant DNA Technology →
Genetic manipulation of bacteria, viruses, fungi, plants and
animals, often for the development of specific products
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Agriculture and Forestry
• Plant biotech

• Animal biotech

Plant biotech
• Improve plants and the products produced from them
• Insect and disease resistance
• Engineered to have desired characteristics
• Corn plant produced with high levels of the amino acid
Lysine

Animal Biotech
• Improve animals or the products they produce
• Animals may be used to produce products that promote
human health
• Increase productivity
• Pigs engineered to produce human hemoglobin

Food and Beverages
• Use of technology in production and processing
• Some biotech principles have been employed for hundreds
of years (Yeast in baking bread)
• Genetically altered crops
• rBGH milk

Biotechnology Applications
• Helps meet human needs -Food, clothing and shelter
• Plants and animals are used in manufacturing food,
clothing and materials for shelter

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