BIOL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cowpox, Growth Hormone, Organ Transplantation
27 Feb 2016
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Humanity"s top ten problems for the next 50 years: Its controversial nature makes it an opportunity for learning. It"s also an opportunity for some fun with science. Disrupion of current pracices of farming and food producion in developed countries. 1917-the term biotechnology created by hungarian engineer karl ereky. Ereky"s biotechnology deiniion: all lines of work by which products are produces from raw materials with the aid of living things . Microbial biotechnology- manipulaion of microorganisms such as yeast and bacteria. More eicient decontaminaion processes for industrial waste product removal. Produce large amounts of important molecules used in nutriion and medicine. Animals as a source of medically valuable proteins. Inclusion or exclusion of a person from suspicion. Tracking and conirmaion of the spread of disease. The use of biotechnology to process and degrade a variety of natural and manmade substances. For example, bacteria that degrade components in crude oil. Involved with the whole spectrum of human medicine.
