Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Basics of Biotechnology

Biotechnology basics -chromanalyse blog provides information about food biotechnology and genetically modified agricultural products.What has come to be called biotechnology and the genetic enhancement of agricultural products may be one of the oldest human activities.


Red biotechnology is applied to medical processes. Some examples are the designing of organisms to produce antibiotics and the engineering of genetic cures through genomic manipulation.White biotechnology also known as industrial biotechnology is biotechnology applied to industrial processes. An example is the designing of an organism to produce a useful chemical. Another example is the using of enzymes as industrial catalysts to either produce valuable chemicals or destroy hazardouspolluting chemicals examples using oxidoreducatses are given in Feng Applications of oxidoreductases Recent progress Ind. Biotechnol. White biotechnology tends to consume less in resources than traditional processes used to produce industrial goods.Green biotechnology is biotechnology applied to agricultural processes.

Whether or not green biotechnology products such as this are ultimately more environmentally friendly is a topic of considerable debate. The term blue biotechnology has also been used to describe the marine and aquatic applications of biotechnology but its use is relatively rare. The investments and economic output of all of these types of applied biotechnologies form what has been described as the bioeconomy.