The short answer is, its living technology. Hence it is bio technology :), or another example could be that we are using technology to alter and manipulate the structure of a living organism, and altering it.
2007-11-06 19:12:06
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answered by zanthus 5
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biology means a study upon both animal and plant.but know a days in every sector there is a technologically Chang is seen for better growth so like this biotechnology help for better growth.
2007-11-06 19:14:28
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answered by Ranjit N 1
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I work in the field so I see it as a tool to dissect how the living cell works on the molecular level. Microscopy is useful to give snapshot images but doesn't let us manipulate living cells to see how they respond. Visible light is limited to how well we could stain and magnify the frozen the results. Scanning electron microscopy brought new detail but never to the molecular level of function. X-ray crystallography gave us the best window into molecular shape but it was slow and unwieldy as not all proteins crystallize well but we might see an enzyme active site occupied by its substrate. The shift in biology came with being able to isolate functioning proteins so use a cells own machinery to alter cell types of interest.
Restriction enzymes let us move genes into new host cells so we can express proteins in controlled settings. Convertases let us clip proteins into functioning forms in cell assay systems. This is all done as black box technology. We put things together and try to see what changes on the molecular scale. So we have reporter tags so we can detect our invisible results. We developed an array of new assay technologies just to detect the changes we could now manipulate.
Biotechnology is the new means of using a cells native tools to understand and manipulate a viable cell's machinery in order to understand cellular processes on the molecular scale. Biotechnology is the applied science of molecular biology.
2007-11-07 07:38:04
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answered by gardengallivant 7
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if we consider that "biology" is the study of living things... biotechnology can be seen as a sub-section of biology.
Biotechnology is (simply put) taking our knowledge of 'living things' and finding practical uses for them. e.g. various bacteria are being used in waste disposal... by breaking down various chemicals, etc.
Genetic engineering can also be seen as a branch of biotechnology... as it is altering the genetic make-up of an organism to better suit our needs.
...hope that makes sense
2007-11-07 00:30:36
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answered by Anonymous
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it somewhat is a exceedingly extensive subject count. It usually contains biology and chemistry, yet there is a few elementary math in contact interior the clever lab purposes (calculating dilutions, plotting archives factors, and so on) and a few info as properly.
2016-10-15 08:10:42
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answered by ? 4
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