BIOTECHNOLOGY

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• application of technology using the living organisms to obtain useful products

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Biotechnology

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early history relates to food and shelter, including domestication

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1. Ancient Biotechnology

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fermentation of food products and medicine

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2. Classical Biotechnology

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manipulates genetic information in an organism, genetic engineering.

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3. Modern Biotechnology

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it is in vitro DNA technology used to isolate genes from an organism manipulate them in the laboratory as per desire and insert them into other cells or systems for specific characteristics.

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• Genetic engineering

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is one of the recent advances in biotechnology, which was developed by two scientists named Boyer and Cohen in 1973

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• Recombinant DNA technology

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who constructed the first recombinant DNA using bacterial DNA and plasmids

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Herbert Boyer:

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circular double-stranded DNA molecule that is distinct from a cell’s chromosomal DNA

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Plasmids

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who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1986 for his work on discoveries of growth factors

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Stanley N. Cohen

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• this enormous volume of data has been stored and organized in two primary data banks

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GenBank
The EMBL Sequence Data Base

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it helps control blood sugar levels

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• Insulin

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increased glucose concentration disorder

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• Diabetes

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deterioration of kidney function

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Nephropathy

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administration of antigen to elicit an immune response that shall protect against infections

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• Vaccines

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toxins that causes the body to make an immune response

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 Antigen

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produced by plasma cells to find the pathogens

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 Antibodies

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• Types of vaccines

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Dead bacteria, Attenuated Bacteria, Subunit Bacteria, New generation vaccines.

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• recombinant plasmids in agriculture

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Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)

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 seeks to modify or manipulate the expression of a gene or to alter the biological properties of living cells for therapeutic use.

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• Human gene therapy

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• antimicrobial chemicals produced by various microorganisms that can kill or retard the growth of infectious microorganisms

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Antibiotics

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• a process that uses microorganisms to clean up pollution

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Biofuels