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What Is Biotechnology?

What Is Biotechnology?. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_mouse#mediaviewer/File:GFP_Mice_01.jpg Genetically Modified Mouse (Uploaded by Kuebi ) CC BY 2.0. Definition of Biotechnology.

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What Is Biotechnology?

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  1. What Is Biotechnology? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_mouse#mediaviewer/File:GFP_Mice_01.jpg Genetically Modified Mouse (Uploaded by Kuebi ) CC BY 2.0

  2. Definition of Biotechnology Biotechnology is "any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use.” - (UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Art. 2) Microsoft Office ClipArt

  3. In other words, biotechnology is the use of living things to make things that will be useful to us. This could include medicines, animals with certain traits, plants that grow quickly, or even complete organisms. http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2012/11/23/usda-urges-consideration-of-gmo-crop-insurance-organic-farmers-howl/Corn Crop (Jim Champion) CC BY-SA 2.0

  4. There are several important areas of biotechnology. These include: • selective breeding • cloning • genetic engineering Microsoft Office ClipArt

  5. Selective Breeding Selective breeding is the process by which people choose which traits they would like to have in the next generation of offspring. They then select the organisms, having those traits, to breed in order to produce offspring with those traits. An example of this is breeding “teacup” dogs. Breeders cross small dogs in an attempt to produce offspring that are tiny.

  6. Selective Breeding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dog_breeds#mediaviewer/File:Big_and_little_dog_1.jpg Uploaded by TbjornstadCC BY-SA 3.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_breeding#mediaviewer/File:Cornselection.jpg John Doebley CC by 2.5

  7. Cloning In the process of cloning, the genetic material is removed from an egg cell and replaced with the genetic material from a body cell of another organism. That egg cell then grows into an “exact” copy of the organism that is being cloned (the body cell donor). One example of this is Dolly the sheep. This site will show you how the process works. Click and Clone

  8. Cloning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloning#mediaviewer/File:Human_cell-line_colony_being_cloned_in_vitro_through_use_of_cloning_rings.jpg PaphragCC BY-SA 2.5 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hello_Dolly.jpg Chris Gin CC 2.0

  9. Genetic Engineering Genetic engineering involves directly changing the DNA of an organism. This could be adding or deleting traits (e.g. genes or groups of genes) on the DNA strand. Organisms produced in this way are referred to as GMOs, or genetically modified organisms. An example of this include some plants used for food, Glo-fish, and bacteria that can produce human insulin.

  10. Genetic Engineering http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bacteria_used_to_make_wheat_seeds_nearly_immune_to_wheat_take-all.jpg Jack Dykinga USDA Public Domain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering#mediaviewer/File:Expression_of_Human_Wild-Type_and_P239S_Mutant_Palladin.png Filip Em CC by 1.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering#mediaviewer/File:Bt_plants.png Herb Pilcher USDA Public Domain

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