Biotechnology Flashcards
— early history as related to food and shelter, including domestication
Ancient Biotechnology
Hunter-gatherers
Palaeolithic society
domestication of plants and animals
artificial selection
— fermentation promoted food production
— medicine
Classical Biotechnology
manipulates genetic information in organism
— genetic engineering
Modern Biotechnology
— 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
Red Biotechnology
— biotechnology applied to industrial processes
— use of organisms or recombinant enzymes as industrial catalysts to either
produce valuable chemicals, new materials and biofuels
White Biotechnology
— applied to agricultural processes
— new varieties of organisms with important traits, in vitro propagation and
cloning
Green Biotechnology
— applied to environmental processes
— use in biodiversity maintenance and pollutant removal
Grey Biotechnology
— used to describe the marine and aquatic applications of biotechnology
Blue Biotechnology
– manipulation of microorganisms such as yeast and bacteria
Microbial Biotechnology
The use of biotechnology to process and degrade a variety of natural and
manmade substances particularly those that contribute to environmental pollution.
Environmental Biotechnology
using biological processes to solve environmental problems
Bioremediation
natural processes of microbes in breaking down hydrocarbon
materials
Biodegradation
process of plants being used to solve pollution problems
Phytoremediation
- raising finfish or shellfish in controlled conditions for use as food sources
Aquaculture
All activities involved in regulating the final quality of a product.
Quality Assurance (QA)
Part of QA process that involves lab testing and monitoring of processes
and applications to ensure consistent product standards.
Quality Control (QC)
first ASEAN country to initiate a biotechnology regulatory
system
Philippines
— 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
Bioinformatics
goldmine for bioinformatics resources that creates public access
databases and develops computing tools for analyzing and sharing genome data.
NCBI
NCBI
National Center for Biotechnology Information
