What are the products of biotechnology?

Answer 1

The scope of biotechnology is diverse. It includes the use of microorganisms, such as bacteria or yeasts, or biological substances, such as enzymes, to perform specific industrial or manufacturing processes. Applications include the production of certain drugs, synthetic hormones, and bulk foodstuffs as well as the bio-conversion of organic waste and the use of genetically altered bacteria in the cleanup of oil spills.

Answer 2

Biotechnology may be termed as modern microbiology, it uses the wealth of molecular Biology concepts to aid the humankind by manipulating micro organisms and other life forms. It can be applied in microbiology, pharmacy, plant science, protein or enzyme productions, animal products, etc.

Answer 3

Biotechnology is used in many fields. Biotechnology is the use of 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. this is found on google, and I am working for creative proteomics, it is a biological company, and we have a lot of equipment for researching.

Answer 4

Biotechnology is important because it provides the ability to produce higher yields and holds the promise of delivering more nutritious food and provides a tool for producing food in a more environmentally stable manner

Answer 5

Corn, soybeans, cotton, canola, and papayas are all known to be genetically engineered and are grown and sold commercially. Tomatoes, potatoes and possibly other vegetables have been genetically engineered, but are not grown commercially. Some meats are given rGBH growth harmone. There may be other foods that have been modified genetically using techniques that for which the methods have been approved, resulting in the food itself not needing approval.

Answer 6

Most Proteins are molecules that serve as the machinery and the catalysts that make cells function. Many useful Biotech products are also proteins or are made by proteins. Since DNA encodes for RNA that programs Protein synthesis, you can change a Protein by changing the DNA. Molecular Biology is advanced sufficiently so that making changes in DNA is very easy in many systems. However, Biotech is still in its infancy and we are still learning all the "rules" in the lab and in the real world.EXAMPLEOLD METHODNEW METHODAVOIDS PROBLEMS LIKEGolden RiceTake a supplement pillAdd a metabolic pathway for making Vitamin A to a rice plantBlindness, expensive vitamin pillsPesticide-Free Crops

Potato

expensive - use poisons to kill pestsAdd a gene encoding a "safe" insecticidal protein to crop plantCrop losses / toxic residues & wildlife loss / wasting moneyInsulinpig pancreas extractPut human insulin gene into bacteriaDiabetes, allergic response, new diseasesGrowth Factorcadaver brain extractPut human growth factor gene into bacteriaDwarfism / spread of brain diseasesDiagnosis of Disease (e.g. Phenylketonuria)Wait until disease occurs & treat symptomsSensitive quick assays to avoid the diseaseProgression of disease / unprepared parentsSuper Laundry SoapsUse bleach, hot waterFind & clone designer enzymesDirty or shrunken clothes / polluting with chlorineBiological Systemscompare toComputer SystemsDNA in nucleussoftware, programs on a hard driveRNArandom access memory (RAM)ribosomescentral processing unit (CPU)Proteinshardware like printers, screens, CD-burners, speakersIf you have a computer (a cell), you can load a program (DNA encoding a gene product = a protein) onto the hard drive (nucleus). If you activate that program (gene), then an information-containing message via RAM (RNA) is sent to the CPU (ribosome). Now the various components of your computer system start performing various functions like: screen displays an image, speakers make sound, and the printer makes hard-copies (proteins can digest food, make your muscles move, or help you think a thought, plus much more!).

If you load a different program (gene), then you will be able to have other functions (proteins). A major emphasis, but not the only goal, of biotechnology is to re-program or alter the genetic material of plants, animals, and microorganisms.

Answer 7

Biotechnology is a field of that combines biology and technology, engineering and medicine. Products of biotechnology are found in four major areas: health care, crop production and agriculture, non food crop production, and environmental uses. Some examples are medicine and flowers.

Answer 8

Have you ever been ill? Even if it was a 'tummy bug' it will have been your cells that were affected by the poisonous chemicals or toxins from bacteria cells in the bad food.

You may know of someone who has been ill with a disease or disorder such as meningitis, malaria, diabetes, a type of cancer, cystic fibrosis, or Alzheimer's disease. All these diseases and disorders are caused by problems at a cell or molecular level. Physical damage such as a burn or broken bone also causes damage at cell level.

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By understanding how cells work in healthy and diseased states, cell biologists working in animal, plant and medical science will be able to develop new vaccines, more effective medicines, plants with improved qualities and through increased knowledge a better understanding of how all living things live.

Eventually it will be possible to produce a 'health forecast' by analysing your database of genetic and cell information. Using this you will be able to take more control over your health in a preventive way.

But cell biology is not just about disease. It has greatly assisted the human fertility programme. DNA testing has been used in Archaeology to provide evidence that a living person is related to a long dead ancestor.

In plant science it has been used to show that two plants that look different have the same genetic origins.

Forensic medicine uses cell biology and DNA fingerprinting to help solve murders and assaults. Neither the courts of law nor the criminals can escape the importance of cell biology.

Biotechnology uses techniques and information from cell biology to genetically modify crops to produce alternative characteristics; to clone plants and animals; to produce and ensure high quality food is available at lower costs; to produce purer medicines and in time organs for the many people who need transplants.

Cell biology is about all this and can make an exciting career.

It is also important that everyone feels informed about how the increase in knowledge about cell biology could affect him or her and society in general. Society will have to make informed decisions about such things as growing organs for transplanting into humans and, in those areas where vitamin 'A' deficiency causes blindness, growing rice modified to produce the vitamin.

A basic understanding of cell biology including genetics will be as important as having some knowledge about computers and the internet.

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT:

If you needed a kidney transplant and no donated human organ were available, would you refuse to have one from a pig specially developed to provide organs for humans?

You are a rice farmer and a parent. You know that each year more than one million children die and another 124 million are made more susceptible to measles and diarrhoea due to shortage of vitamin A. You have heard about a new strain of genetically modified rice producing vitamin A is available. Would you grow it and let your family eat it?

Answer 9

An important aspect of any biotechnological processes is the culture of animal cells in artificial media. These animal cells in culture are used in recombinant DNA technology, genetic manipulations and in a variety of industrial processes. Now-a -days it has become possible to use the cell and tissue culture in the areas of research which have a potential for economic value and commercialization. The animal cell cultures are being extensively used in production of vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, pharmaceutical drugs, cancer research, genetic manipulations etc.

Animal cells e.g. egg cells are used for multiplication of superior livestock using a variety of techniques like cloning of superior embryonic cells, transformation of cultured cells leading to the production of transgenic animals. The animal cells are also used in vitro fertilization and transfer of embryos to surrogate mothers. Hence the establishment and maintenance of a proper animal culture is the first step towards using them as tools for biotechnology.

Answer 10

Due to the vast applicability of this science, there are several ways to define biotechnology. However, it is helpful to have one generic definition. The 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"