BIOTECHNOLOGY AND Biotechnology SOCIETY Ree eee ener al 5 energy source, efficient environmental management, and food safety, and medical discoveries. + Is the use of microorganisms, plants, and animal, their parts, or their products, to make materials such as food, ‘medicine, and chemicals that are useful lo man, Traditional Biotechnology raditional Biotechnology Modern Biptechnology + Biotechnology is not something new. “The vine, soy same, ani “puter, wine, chee, Biotechnology is the used of living organisms to “pandesal” and “nata de coco” are all products of traditional products useful to man .To be able to do this, there oteshnolog: vwas a need for scientist to focus their esearch on the \ sesh : genetic information of the living cell contain Yeast is used in prepuring pandesal, buceria is needed to F an eee ae in chemical messages called genes or its + Yeast is used to produced our traditional wine or “tubs”, sugareane wine or “hasi” rice wine or “tapuy” and even fermented fish or meat “burong isda at kame”, += Through extensive research, scientist now understand the chemical component of the genes, the molecules oem ba Leese he echlatie that encode an organism’s genetic information. Genes eee ee z Tandinace to hace bmpatiacttarmes een call to another and from one organism to another. Deoxyribonucleic Acid or DNA. This procedure of changing some messages in ‘genes and transferring them to another cell is[. Application of Modern Technology cee peas poaice pais bya O,III. Water Management + Sewage processing plants use mierbes to feed on diferent type of solid waste materials. Scientists are trying to test a number of biotechnology stateges to deal with the lage-scale wastes and toxie substances in our eooystem, Bioremediation, a process of using microopanisms 0 remove toxic wastes ftom the eavironment, have heen and are curently being conducted in different research laboratories in the world. As a result, xnotially engineered bacteria have been developed whish help in degaing different foms of population sush as pesticides, herbicides, and other poisonous chemicals, V. Application of Biotechnology in forensics + Investigation of biological samples derives ftom scenes of crime could now employ a methodology that analyses small sections of genes of DNA, which were observed from previous studies possesses sulcient variability to be abl to distinguish between individuals in the population, The available DNA analysis technology allows results to he rapidly and accurately oblained fom very small amounts of cellular material. DNA analysis is used to resolve cases of rime, paternity suits, and identification of vietims of disaster IV. Industrial Biotechnology + Modem biotechnology techniques can be used to improve the production of many compounds such as proteins, vitamins, amino acids, antibiotis, dyes, and precusors of other biopolymers. In addition to using bacteria as factories for the production of proteins including commercially important enzymes, nicroorganisms have been genetically enginccred to facilitate ‘he development of new and more eificent biosynthetic pathways for the production of this compounds. Reference: Barnum, Sd. (2005) Bictchosogy, An Tnrdhstion Thomson BrookaCade. USA