Techniques for biotechnology
“Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology”
Biotechnology uses animals, plants, bacteria or other living things to develop medicines, food or new substances. There are traditional techniques such as cheese making. And modern techniques such as cloning.
Traditional and modern biotechnology
Biotechnology all kinds of techniques, from traditional to ultramodern. An example of traditional biotechnology is cheese making. This is done with the help of bacteria and fungi.Modern biotechnology techniques include: examples modification, stem cell techniques, cloning and synthetic biology.
Biotechnology in industry
The industry used biotechnological processes for, for example, the production of chemicals or plastics. Or for the production of fuels based on renewable raw materials. For example environmentally friendly fuels such as bioethanol. Bio-ethanol is made from food crops such as sugar cane, grain, maize and sugar beets and residual flows such as straw and maize leaves. It arises from the fermentation of sugars or starches.
Genetic modification
Researchers can change genetic material in plants and animals (organisms). In this way they provide those organisms with desirable properties. If they do that in a way that is not naturally possible, it is called modification. The result is a genetically modified organism (GMO).
Genetic modification of animals mainly for biomedical research. Among other things in the field of cancer, brain failure, age-related diseases and developmental problems.
Plants and animals can change substantially through the application of biotechnology. That is why the government sets legal limits here.
