The use of theories and concepts in Biological Sciences to improve our quality of life
Genetic Engineering
Also called as recombination, products are called recombinant DNA
The goal is to identify traits that are favorable and insert it in another organism.
The most common gene editing tool is Clustered Regularity Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)
Biofortification increases the nutritional value of the crops.
Golden rice is a genetically modified, biofortified crop. It is genetically modified to produce beta-carotin which was later converted to vitamin A when metabolized by the human body.
Bacillus Thuringiensis (BT): A type of bacteria that lives in soil. They produce proteins harmful to insects such as several species of Moths and Butterflies
Polymerase Chain Reaction
is a method used to amplify DNA, it resembles replication but is carried out in a test tube.
Thermal Cycler
is a laboratory instrument that heats and cools samples in repetitive cycles to facilitate DNA or RNA amplification through the polymerase chain reaction.
