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The wide concept of “biotech” or “biotechnology” encompasses a wide range of procedures for

modifying living organisms according to human purposes going back to domestication of animals,
cultivation of plants, and “improvement” to these thru breeding programs that employ critical critical
selection, and hybridication. Modern Biotechnology is a term adopted by international convention to
refer to biotechnological techniques for the manipulation of genetic material and the fusion of cells
beyond normal breeding barriers.

Karl Ereky a Hungarian engineer, coined the term biotechnology in 1919, to refer to the science and the
methods that permits

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