Biotechnology and its applications
Introduction:
Biotechnology is the broad area of biology, involving living systems and organisms to develop or make products, or "any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use“.
Depending on the tools and applications, it often overlaps with the (related) fields of molecular biology, bio-engineering, biomedical engineering, biomanufacturing, molecular engineering, etc.
The wide concept of "biotech" or "biotechnology" encompasses a wide range of procedures for modifying living organisms according to human purposes, going back to domestication of animals, cultivation of the plants, and "improvements" to these through breeding programs that employ artificial selection and hybridization. Modern usage also includes genetic engineering as well as cell and tissue culture technologies.
Its Applications:
Biotechnology has applications in four major industrial areas,
Food Industry
Health and Medicine
Agriculture
Industrial And Environmental
The three important techniques of biotechnology are: (1) Recombinant DNA Technology (Genetic Engineering) (2) Plant Tissue Culture and (3) Transgenic (Genetically Modified Organisms).
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The term biotechnology represents a fusion or an alliance between biology and technology. Biotechnology is as old as human civilization and is an integral part of human life. There are records that wine and beer were prepared in as early as 600 B.C. bread and curd in 4000 B.C. The term biotechnology was introduced in 1917 by Hungarian engineer, Karl Ereky.
It concerns with the exploitation of biological agents or their components for generating useful products / services. The area covered under biotechnology is very vast and the techniques involved are highly divergent.
Biotechnology and its applications
Introduction:
Biotechnology is the broad area of biology, involving living systems and organisms to develop or make products, or "any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use“.
Depending on the tools and applications, it often overlaps with the (related) fields of molecular biology, bio-engineering, biomedical engineering, biomanufacturing, molecular engineering, etc.
The wide concept of "biotech" or "biotechnology" encompasses a wide range of procedures for modifying living organisms according to human purposes, going back to domestication of animals, cultivation of the plants, and "improvements" to these through breeding programs that employ artificial selection and hybridization. Modern usage also includes genetic engineering as well as cell and tissue culture technologies.
Its Applications:
Biotechnology has applications in four major industrial areas,
Food Industry
Health and Medicine
Agriculture
Industrial And Environmental
The three important techniques of biotechnology are: (1) Recombinant DNA Technology (Genetic Engineering) (2) Plant Tissue Culture and (3) Transgenic (Genetically Modified Organisms).
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The term biotechnology represents a fusion or an alliance between biology and technology. Biotechnology is as old as human civilization and is an integral part of human life. There are records that wine and beer were prepared in as early as 600 B.C. bread and curd in 4000 B.C. The term biotechnology was introduced in 1917 by Hungarian engineer, Karl Ereky.
It concerns with the exploitation of biological agents or their components for generating useful products / services. The area covered under biotechnology is very vast and the techniques involved are highly divergent.
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2. Definition of Biotechnology
Biotechnology is technology based on biology,
especially when used in agriculture, food science, and
medicine. United Nations Convention on Biological
Diversity defines biotechnology as:
Any technological application that uses biological
systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to
make or modify products or processes for specific use.
Biotechnology is often used to refer to genetic
engineering technology of the 21st century,
3. Aplication
Biotechnology has applications in four major industrial areas, including
health care (medical), crop production and agriculture, non food us-
es of crops and other products, and environmental uses. For example,
one aplication of biotechnology is the directed use of organisms for the
manufacture of organic products (examples include beer and milk pro-
ducts). Another example is using naturally present bacteria by the mi-
ning industry in bioleaching. Biotechnology is also used to recycle, tr-
eat waste, clean up sites contaminated by industrial activities (biore-
mediation), and also to produce biological weapons.
5. Blue biotechnology
Blue biotechnology is
a term that has been
used to describe the
marine and aquatic
applications of biote-
chnology, but its use
is relatively rare.
6. Green biotechnology
Green biotechnology is
biotechnology applied to
agricultural processes.
An example would be the
selection and domestication
of plants via micropropagation.
Another example is the
designing of transgenic plants to
grow under specific environme-
ntal conditions or in the presence
(or absence) of certain
agricultural chemicals.
7. As ex-president Jimmy Carter stated:
”Responsible biotechnology is not an enemy,
starvation is. Without an adequate supply
of food at available prices we cannot
expect world health or peace”.
8. Red biotechnology
Red biotechnology refers to the
use of organisms for the
improvement of medical
processes. It includes the
designing of organisms to
manufacture pharmaceutical
products like antibiotics and
vaccines, the engineering of
genetic cures through genomic
manipulation, and its use in
forensics through DNA profiling.
9. White biotechnology
White biotechnology,
also known as industrial
biotechnology, is biote-
chnology applied to
industrial processes.
An example is the
designing of organisms
to produce a useful
chemical.
