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What is Biotechnology ?
Give one use of Biotechnology.
Give one commercial use of Biotechnology.
Write two bacterial examples of biofertilizer.
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Write two names of crops genetically develop.
Answers
Answer:
Transgenic organisms possess DNA from a different species, usually generated by molecular cloning techniques. Vaccines, antibiotics, and hormones are examples of products obtained by recombinant DNA technology.
Answer:
Biotechnology.
Biotechnology is a technology that involves the use of living organisms. Biotechnology is mainly used in agriculture, food science, and medicine. In biotechnology, living organisms are used to make useful chemicals and products or to perform an industrial task.
Use of Biotechnology.
The goal of biotechnology is to produce drugs by using living organisms such as bacterial cells, yeast, mammalian cells, etc., that are placed in culture to produce substances with pharmacological activity, such as monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of tumors.
Two bacterial examples of biofertilizer.
N-fixing biofertilizers: These include the bacteria Rhizobium, Azotobacter, Azospirillum, Clostridium and Acetobacter among others; blue-green algae (BGA), or cyanobacteria, and the fern Azolla (which works in symbiosis with BGA).