Biotechnology



Biotechnology Biotechnology combines disciplines like genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, embryology and cell biology, which are in turn linked to disciplines like chemical engineering, information technology, and robotics.
 * 1) The use of living organisms (especially microorganisms) in industrial, agricultural, medical and other technological applications.
 * 2) The application of the principles and practices of engineering science and technology to the life sciences.

One aspect of biotechnology is the directed use of organisms for the manufacture of products (examples include beer and milk products). Biotechnology is also used to recycle, treat waste, clean up sites contaminated by industrial activities (bioremediation), and to produce biological weapons (This is very controversial).

There are also applications of biotechnology that do not use living organisms. Examples are DNA microarrays used in genetics and radioactive tracers used in medicine.

Red biotechnology is applied to medical processes. Some examples are the designing of organisms to produce antibiotics, and the engineering of genetic cures through genomic manipulation.

White biotechnology, also known as grey biotechnology, is biotechnology applied to industrial processes. An example is the designing of an organism to produce a useful chemical. White biotechnology tends to consume less in resources than traditional processes used to produce industrial goods.

Green biotechnology is biotechnology applied to agricultural processes. An example is the designing of plants to grow under specific planetary environmental conditions or in the presence (or absence) of certain agricultural chemicals.

Today Union Citizens use some aspect of biotechnology somewhere in daily life.