1. Introduction to
Biotechnology
DONE BY:
SINDHU PRIYA.S
I-ECE ‘B’

2. WHAT IS BIOTECHNOLOGY
Using scientific methods with
organisms to produce new
products or new forms of
organisms

3. Biotechnology
Biotechnology helps to
meet our basic needs.
Food, clothing, shelter,
health and safety
Improvements by using
science

4. Agricultural View
Milk production
New horticultural and
ornamental plants
Wildlife, aquaculture, natural
resources and environmental
management

5. Organismic Biotech
Study and use natural
genetic variations
Cloning is an example of
organismic biotech

6. Molecular Biotech
Molecular Biotechnology
is about the application of
biological science at the
molecular level.

7. Biotech examples
 Medicine
 Agriculture
 Environment
 Forestry
 Food and beverage
processing

8. Medicine
 Some new developments
delve into the hereditary
material of humans known
as gene therapy

9.  Environmental biotechnology is
biotechnology that is applied to and
used to study the natural environment
 Environmental biotechnology can
simply be described as "the optimal use
of nature, in the form of plants, animals,
bacteria, fungi and algae, to produce
renewable energy, food and nutrients

10. Ag and Forestry
 Plant biotech
 Animal biotech

11. Plant biotech
 Improve plants and the
products produced from them
 Insect and disease resistance
 Engineered to have desired
characteristics

12. Animal Biotech
 Improve animals or the
products they produce
 Animals may be used to
produce products that
promote human health

13. Food and Beverages
 Use of technology in
producing and processing
 Some biotech principles
have been employed for
hundreds of years
 Yeast in baking bread

14. Biotechnology
 Helps meet human needs
 Used to make products
more useful or desirable
 Ex: conversion of milk into
cheese or yogurt

15. Efficiency
 Must keep the cost of
improving products as low
as possible
 Biotech results in greater
efficiency

16. Health Promoting Foods
 Food with unique traits
 Some contain
therapeutants
 Some designed with
nutrient enrichment

17. Safety
 Consumers want foods to
provide needed nutrients and
in some cases, enhanced
foods
 Do not want side effects from
those enhanced foods

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