Learn the Fundamentals of Biotechnology <\/p>\n
1. What is biotechnology? <\/p>\n
Biotechnology is the application of biological knowledge to obtain new techniques, materials and compounds of pharmaceutical, medical, agrarian, industrial and scientific use, i.e., of practical use. <\/p>\n
The pioneer fields of biotechnology were agriculture and the food industry but nowadays many other practical fields use its techniques. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
2. What is genetic engineering? <\/p>\n
Genetic engineering is the use of genetic knowledge to artificially manipulate genes: It is one of the fields of biotechnology. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
3. At the present level of the biotechnology what are the main techniques of genetic engineering? <\/p>\n
The main techniques of genetic engineering today are: the recombinant DNA technology (also called genetic engineering itself) in which pieces of genes from an organism are inserted into the genetic material of another organism producing recombinant beings; the nucleus transplantation technology, popularly known as cloning, in which a nucleus of a cell is grafted into a enucleated egg cell of the same species to create a genetic copy of the donor (of the nucleus) individual; the technology of DNA amplification, or PCR (polymerase chain reaction), that allows millions replications of chosen fragments of a DNA molecule. <\/p>\n
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