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What is biotechnology?

What is biotechnology?. What do the following have to do with biotechnology? Brainstorm. Review the biotechnology time sheet When do you think biotechnology became a very important scientific discipline? When DNA was discovered.

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What is biotechnology?

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  1. What is biotechnology? What do the following have to do with biotechnology? Brainstorm

  2. Review the biotechnology time sheet When do you think biotechnology became a very important scientific discipline? When DNA was discovered

  3. Prior to the discovery of DNA, biotechnology was primarily to do with agriculture While biotechnology and agriculture are still important, we are going to focus on medical and pharmaceutical biotechnology

  4. Brainstorm a list of medicines that you or someone you know has taken. Do any of these use biological material? What are the benefits of using biological materials to make medicines? What might be the drawbacks? Homework – Find information about one drug that uses biotechnology to treat people

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