what is mean by biotech?

Answer 1

In the last few decades, advances in molecular biology and the equipment available for research in this field have allowed the increasingly rapid sequencing of large portions of the genomes of several species. In fact, to date, several bacterial genomes, as well as those of some simple eukaryotes (e.g., Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or baker's yeast) have been sequenced in full. The Human Genome Project, designed to sequence all 24 of the human chromosomes, is also progressing. Popular sequence databases, such as GenBank and EMBL, have been growing at exponential rates. This deluge of information has necessitated the careful storage, organization and indexing of sequence information. Information science has been applied to biology to produce the field called Bioinformatics.

The simplest tasks used in bioinformatics concern the creation and maintenance of databases of biological information. Nucleic acid sequences (and the protein sequences derived from them) comprise the majority of such databases. While the storage and or ganization of millions of nucleotides is far from trivial, designing a database and developing an interface whereby researchers can both access existing information and submit new entries is only the beginning.

The most pressing tasks in bioinformatics involve the analysis of sequence information. Computational Biology is the name given to this process, and it involves the following:






Finding the genes in the DNA sequences of various organisms


Developing methods to predict the structure and/or function of newly discovered proteins and structural RNA sequences.


Clustering protein sequences into families of related sequences and the development of protein models.


Aligning similar proteins and generating phylogenetic trees to examine evolutionary relationships.
The process of evolution has produced DNA sequences that encode proteins with very specific functions. It is possible to predict the three-dimensional structure of a protein using algorithms that have been derived from our knowledge of physics, chemistry and most importantly, from the analysis of other proteins with similar amino acid sequences.

Answer 2

Biotech is technology based on biology especially when used in agriculture, food science and medicine.

Answer 3

Bio-tech is the short form of Bio-technology-

Biotechnology, the use of biological processes, as through the exploitation and manipulation of living organisms or biological systems, in the development or manufacture of a product or in the technological solution to a problem. As such, biotechnology is a general category that has applications in pharmacology, medicine, agriculture, and many other fields.
The techniques of genetic engineering have been used to manipulate the DNA (genetic material) of bacteria and other organisms to manufacture biological products such as drugs (insulin, interferon, and growth hormones). A common technique involved in this process in gene splicing, in which a gene that produces a desired product can be inserted into bacterial DNA. Bacteria can then be grown in large quantities and processed to extract the desired substance; specially cultured plant and animal cells can be similarly grown and processed. Hybrids of cancer and antibody-producing cells (hybridomas) have been cloned in the laboratory to mass produce experimental monoclonal antibodies, which are being studied for the treatment of cancer and other diseases. Bacteria have also been altered to break down oil slicks and industrial waste products.

Plants and foods with such desired qualities as prolonged shelf life or increased resistance to diseases and pests have been created through genetic engineering; that is, by inserting DNA from other organisms. Much of the corn and soybeans grown in the United States, for example, are now genetically modified in some way, Livestock have also been genetically altered to produce medically useful substances. The field of biotechnology also includes gene therapy, in which attempts are made to insert normal or genetically altered genes into cells to treat genetic disorders and chronic diseases.-

Answer 4

Biotech mean Informal n(U) the use of living things such as cells, Bacteria etc to make drugs, destroy waste matters etc.*

Answer 5

Bio is Greek for life

Tech is sort for technology which again comes from Greek: "tekhnologia" and it means: systematic treatment of an art or science.

Answer 6

Quality control is a system for ensuring the maintenance of proper standards in manufactured goods, especially by periodic random inspection of the product. It is done to maintain the standards of quality in manufactured goods

Answer 7

biotechnology is the technology that works by using biological products like using animal things for technological/industrial uses.
this is the simplest i can put it without reference

Answer 8

study of biology with the latest technology

Answer 9

biology with techonoly, means study biology using computers.

Answer 10

BIO- life
TECH - technology