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Biotechnology

Published on Nov 23, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

BIOTECHNOLOGY

  • The use and application of living things
  • Examples, breeding plants, animals, and using bacterial.

ARTIFICIAL SELECTION

  • Selecting and breeding plants and animals for desirable traits
  • Aka selective breeding
  • Example: different dog breeds and vegetables
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GENETIC ENGINEERING

  • A piece of DNA is modified for use in research, medicine
  • Agriculture or industry.
  • Example: a mouse cannot control how much food it eats
  • Pellets are collected to make plastic products
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CLONING

  • A organism cell or piece of genetic material,
  • That is genetically identical to the one it came from.
  • Example: dolly was cloned from a body cell of an adult sheep.
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