Biotechnology

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— early history as related to food and shelter, including domestication

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Ancient Biotechnology

Question 2

Hunter-gatherers

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Palaeolithic society

Question 3

domestication of plants and animals

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artificial selection

Question 4

— fermentation promoted food production
— medicine

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Classical Biotechnology

Question 5

manipulates genetic information in organism
— genetic engineering

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Modern Biotechnology

Question 6

— applied to medical processes or health
— designing of organisms to produce vaccines and antibiotics; new drugs;
molecular diagnostics; regenerative therapies; use of genetic engineering to cure
diseases

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Red Biotechnology

Question 7

— biotechnology applied to industrial processes
— use of organisms or recombinant enzymes as industrial catalysts to either
produce valuable chemicals, new materials and biofuels

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White Biotechnology

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— applied to agricultural processes
— new varieties of organisms with important traits, in vitro propagation and
cloning

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Green Biotechnology

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— applied to environmental processes
— use in biodiversity maintenance and pollutant removal

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Grey Biotechnology

Question 10

— used to describe the marine and aquatic applications of biotechnology

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Blue Biotechnology

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– manipulation of microorganisms such as yeast and bacteria

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Microbial Biotechnology

Question 12

The use of biotechnology to process and degrade a variety of natural and
manmade substances particularly those that contribute to environmental pollution.

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Environmental Biotechnology

Question 13

using biological processes to solve environmental problems

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Bioremediation

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natural processes of microbes in breaking down hydrocarbon
materials

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Biodegradation

Question 15

process of plants being used to solve pollution problems

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Phytoremediation

Question 16

• raising finfish or shellfish in controlled conditions for use as food sources

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Aquaculture

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All activities involved in regulating the final quality of a product.

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Quality Assurance (QA)

Question 18

Part of QA process that involves lab testing and monitoring of processes
and applications to ensure consistent product standards.

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Quality Control (QC)

Question 19

first ASEAN country to initiate a biotechnology regulatory
system

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Philippines

Question 20

— a new branch of computer science
— is a research field that uses computers to help solve biological problems
— applies computer science and information technology to promote an
understanding of biological processes
— is an interdisciplinary field which addresses biological problems using
computational techniques, and makes the rapid organization as well as analysis of
biological data possible

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Bioinformatics

Question 21

goldmine for bioinformatics resources that creates public access
databases and develops computing tools for analyzing and sharing genome data.

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NCBI

Question 22

NCBI

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National Center for Biotechnology Information