what is a bio technology?

Answer 1

Biotechnology is technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food science, and medicine. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity has come up with one of many definitions of biotechnology:[1]

"Biotechnology means any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use."
This definition is at odds with common usage in the United States, where "biotechnology" generally refers to recombinant DNA based and/or tissue culture based processes that have only been commercialized since the 1970s. Thus, in common usage, modifying plants or animals by breeding, which has been practiced for thousands of years, would not be considered biotechnology. This distinction emphasizes that modern, recombinant DNA based biotechnology is not just a more powerful version of existing technology, but represents something new and different; for instance, theoretically, recombinant DNA biotechnology allows us to take virtually any gene and express it in any organism; we can take the genes that make crimson color in plants and put them into guinea pigs to make pink pets, or, we can take the genes that help arctic fish survive the freezing temperatures and put them into food to increase the amount of time it can grow before it freezes. This sort of gene transfer was virtually impossible with historical processes.

There has been a great deal of talk - and money - poured into biotechnology with the hope that miracle drugs will appear. While there do seem to be a small number of efficacious drugs, in general the Biotech revolution has not happened in the pharmaceutical sector. However, recent progress with monoclonal antibody based drugs, such as Genentech's Avastin (tm) suggest that biotech may finally have found a role in pharmaceutical sales.

Biotechnology can also be defined as the manipulation of organisms to do practical things and to provide useful products.

One aspect of biotechnology is the directed use of organisms for the manufacture of organic products (examples include beer and milk products). For another example, naturally present bacteria are utilized by the mining industry in bioleaching. Biotechnology is also used to recycle, treat waste, clean up sites contaminated by industrial activities (bioremediation), and produce biological weapons.

There are also applications of biotechnology that do not use living organisms. Examples are DNA microarrays used in genetics and radioactive tracers used in medicine.

Red biotechnology is applied to medical processes. Some examples are the designing of organisms to produce antibiotics, and the engineering of genetic cures through genomic manipulation.

White biotechnology, also known as grey biotechnology, is biotechnology applied to industrial processes. An example is the designing of an organism to produce a useful chemical. White biotechnology tends to consume less in resources than traditional processes used to produce industrial goods.

Green biotechnology is biotechnology applied to agricultural processes. An example is the designing of transgenic plants to grow under specific environmental conditions or in the presence (or absence) of certain agricultural chemicals. One hope is that green biotechnology might produce more environmentally friendly solutions than traditional industrial agriculture. An example of this is the engineering of a plant to express a pesticide, thereby eliminating the need for external application of pesticides. An example of this would be Bt corn. Whether or not green biotechnology products such as this are ultimately more environmentally friendly is a topic of considerable debate.

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field which addresses biological problems using computational techniques. The field is also often referred to as computational biology. It plays a key role in various areas, such as functional genomics, structural genomics, and proteomics, and forms a key component in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector.

The term blue biotechnology has also been used to describe the marine and aquatic applications of biotechnology, but its use is relatively rare.

Answer 2

Production or formation of new or desired substances in large scale, using specific genes, enzymes and other biological products is called biotechnology.

There are several dimensions of biotechnology. It pervades the entire biological world. It links the benefit of mankind and civilization to technology. But to bring about efficacy one had to be adept in several disciplines such as biology, physics, chemistry, math, and computer science. One must delve into the techniques to exploit the benefit of biotechnology in the fields of medicine and agriculture.
Biotechnology offers a tool for the benefit of mankind and but it may be misused for chemical warfare and in the creation of forms that would affect the biodiversity and gene pool.

Answer 3

Biotechnology is a broad term that applies to all practical uses of living organisms—anything from microorganisms used in the fermentation of beer to the most sophisticated application of gene therapy. The term covers applications that are old and new, familiar and strange, sophisticated and simple.

Defined in this way, the term is almost too broad to be useful. One way of thinking about biotechnology is to consider two categories of activities: those that are traditional and familiar and those that are relatively new. Within each category can be found technologies that are genetic—that involve modifications of traits passed down from one generation to the next—and technologies that are not.

Answer 4

Biotechnology is technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food science, and medicine. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity has come up with one of many definitions of biotechnology."Biotechnology means any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use."

Answer 5

This view or definition only includes those products based on platform technologies developed in recent decades, usually only including recombinant proteins and monoclonal antibodies as being biopharmaceuticals, leaving out nonrecombinant cultured proteins, blood/plasma proteins, vaccines and other classes of products. This view/definition is more predominant in Europe, e.g., European Union formal definitions, or is used by those whose primary/sole interest is in recombinant and monoclonal antibody products. Many obvious biopharmaceutical products are classed as as 'old' or simply ignored, including many products developed and approved recently and incorporating more recent/newer technology than many recombinant proteins and monoclonal antibodies (which are based on now 'old' technologies, invented in the 1970s and commercialized in the 1980s).

Answer 6

that's a replace of the biology with micro organisms. For the common you could desire to learn microbiology in BT. Then foodstuff microbiology, commercial microbiology. After then you truly might desire to learn genetics that's the project in biotechnology. Biology is the learn of each and every of the living beings which contain organisms to dinasour and roots to very super timber. And in biotechnology you will study micro organisms, genetics and chemistry of different micro organisms.

Answer 7

is the genetic engineering implemented on organisms for human welfare