BIOTECHNOLOGY NOTES

What Is Biotechnology?

• Using scientific methods with organisms to produce new products or new forms of organisms.
  "Any technique that uses living organisms or substances from those organisms to make or modify a product, to improve plants or animals, or to develop microorganisms for specific uses "
  
• GMO- genetically modified organisms.
  GEO- genetically enhanced organisms.
  With both, the natural genetic material of the organism has been altered.
  Roots in bread making, wine brewing, cheese and yogurt fermentation, and classical plant and animal breeding
• Manipulation of genes is called genetic engineering or recombinant DNA technology
• Genetic engineering involves taking one or more genes from a location in one organism and either Transferring them to another organism OR Putting them back into the original organism in different combinations