Type of biotechnology

• Microbial Biotechnology involves the manipulation of microorganisms such as yeast and bacteria to create better enzymes, more efficient decontamination processes for industrial waste product removal, and is used to clone and produce large amounts of important proteins used in human medicine.
• Animal Biotechnology involves the production of medically valuable proteins, antibodies, transgenic animals, and is used as an important model in basic research.
• Bioremediation is the use of biotechnology to process waste.
• Agricultural Biotechnology results in plants that are more environmentally friendly and yield more per acre, have resistance to diseases and insects, and can produce foods with higher protein or vitamin content. Drugs developed and grown as plant products. These better plants ultimately reduce production costs to help feed the growing world population
• Forensic Biotechnology includes DNA fingerprinting, inclusion or exclusion of a person from suspicion, paternity cases, identification of human remains, endangered species tracking, and confirmation of the spread of disease.
• Regulatory Biotechnology involves Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC), which ensure that biotechnology products meet strict standards for purity and performance.
• Medical Biotechnology is involved with the whole spectrum of human medicine, including preventive medicine, diagnosis of health and illness, and treatment of human diseases, with new information from the Human Genome Project and gene therapy.
• Genetic engineering is used in aquaculture to create disease-resistant strains of oysters and vaccines against viruses that infect salmon and other finfish.
• Transgenic salmon overproducing growth hormone are created to help humans by providing a sustainable source of protein.
• Bioprospecting is a process to identify and exploit rich and valuable sources of new genes, proteins and metabolic processes with important applications for human benefits, such as marine plankton and snails found to be rich sources of antitumor and anticancer molecules.
• Aquaculture is the process of raising finfish or shellfish in controlled conditions for use as food sources, contributing to 50% of all fish consumed by humans worldwide.
• As a consumer, you should care about a product undergoing intense regulations because it ensures that the product meets strict standards for purity and performance.
• Bioremediation was used in the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and the 2010 Deep Water Horizon spill to clean up oil.
• Bioremediation involves adding nutrients to stimulate the growth of bacteria to clean up oil spills.
• Bioremediation is the process of using microorganisms to degrade and remove pollutants from the environment.
• Transgenic salmon that overproduce growth hormone are also created in aquaculture.
• Bioengineering involves modifying organisms or their products through genetic engineering, cell fusion, or other techniques.
• Bioremediation is the use of microorganisms to clean up polluted environments.