What Is Biotechnology


The UN Convention on Biological Diversity states, Biotechnology is any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use. The OECD (the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development) defines biotechnology as the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents”. Thus, Biotechnology basically means using biology as the basis for a technology that is applied to research and product development in areas such as agriculture, food science, and medicine.


The Academic Standards for Science and Technology defines Biotechnology as the ways that humans apply biological concepts to produce products and provide services. This is very true if we consider a section of biotechnology in which the directed manipulation 다크에덴프리서버 of organisms is used for the product of organic products such as beer, milk products, food etc.


Biotechnology had already been performed long before the term itself was coined, though on a very basic level. For example, man had already learnt the method of fermenting fruit juices to concoct...

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