BIOTECJNOLOGY - INTRODUCTION

• Biotechnology deals with the techniques of using living organisms or enzymes from organisms to produce products useful to humans.
• The processes like in vitro fertilization leading to a ‘test-tube’ baby, synthesizing a gene and using it, developing a DNA vaccine or correcting a defective gene, are all parts of biotechnology.
• Biotechnology can be defined as- ‘The integration of natural science and organisms, cells, parts thereof, and molecular analogues for products and services’.

Fig. test tube baby  

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