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What Is Biotechnology and What Does It

Biotechnology uses living organisms or their products to benefit humanity by making products or solving problems. Historically, fermentation, selective breeding, and antibiotics were used. Modern biotechnology includes gene cloning, genetic engineering, recombinant DNA technology, and the Human Genome Project. An example is using recombinant DNA technology to develop disease-resistant plants and crops with greater yields. Biotechnology and biochemistry are related because biochemistry studies the chemical processes of living things, providing insights into developing medicines and understanding genetic traits that can be applied through biotechnology.

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What Is Biotechnology and What Does It

Biotechnology uses living organisms or their products to benefit humanity by making products or solving problems. Historically, fermentation, selective breeding, and antibiotics were used. Modern biotechnology includes gene cloning, genetic engineering, recombinant DNA technology, and the Human Genome Project. An example is using recombinant DNA technology to develop disease-resistant plants and crops with greater yields. Biotechnology and biochemistry are related because biochemistry studies the chemical processes of living things, providing insights into developing medicines and understanding genetic traits that can be applied through biotechnology.

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What Is Biotechnology and What Does It Mean to You?

Biotechnology – using living organisms, or the products of living


organisms, for human benefit to make a product or solve a problem.
Historical Examples
 Fermentation
 Selective breeding
 Use of antibiotics

• Modern Examples
– Gene cloning
– Genetic engineering
– Recombinant DNA technology
– Human Genome Project
• Example of "modern" biotechnology:
– recombinant DNA technology started modern biotech as an
industry
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• Examples of applications
– development of disease-resistant plants
– food crops that produce greater yields
– "golden rice" engineered to be more nutritious
– genetically engineered bacteria that can degrade environmental
pollutants
• Work in groups to come up with more examples of applications

What is the relationship between biotechnology


and biochemistry?
 Bio— Life, Chemistry—-the bits and pieces of how a living thing chemically operates. an
exciting field that would be related to researching perhaps how to make a medicine that
effects an organism (like people) in beneficial ways.

There are diseases and traits we need to study in a detailed way because women carry
the disease or trait, but without that Y chromosome, they pass it on to their sons.
Understanding, in detail, how mitochondrial DNA transmits and expresses those traits:
biochemistry.

REFLECTION:

 Biotechnology is one of the human discoveries that has become widely use in our daily
lives. Now we have figured out how to make a wearable insulin pump that could test
your blood sugar and pump out insulin when needed, not flood your body with an
injection two or three times a day or ice trays are no longer these stiff things that you
have to wrench a handle to break the ice enough to get it out of the tray. These are some
products of biotechnology combined with biochemistry. I think the most important help
of biotechnology is in the field of making medicines that helped save a million lives.

Submitted by:
JESSELA D. ESTRELLA
BS PSYCHOLOGY IV

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