Things to Know

4 Major areas of biotechnology

• Medical
• Agriculture- Food
• Agriculture- Non Food
• Environmental Applications

Medical

Agriculture- non food

Agriculture- food

Even before written history, microorganisms have been used to transform agricultural products into food.

Environmental applications

Bioremediation is an environmental application of biotechnology that uses living organisms to detoxify and restore polluted and degraded ecosystems.

Recombinant DNA technology is the joining of DNA molecules from two different species that are inserted into a host organism to produce new genetic combinations.

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