Give a few examples of how biotechnology has affected the following fields: • medicine: • agriculture: • conservation:

Biotechnology, by the word itself is a technology that is centered in biology. It is the exploitation of biological process. Biotechnology has harness the cellular and bio molecular processes to develop technologies and product that help us elevate our lives. With the help of biotechnology, we are able to modify the products for its specific use. Let me give you an example of the following:

1.    Medicine: In medicine, the modern biotechnology had provided products that could combat rare diseases. Currently, around 250 biotechnology health care products and vaccines were made as well as those that are known to be untreated.

2.    Agriculture: With the help of biotechnology, we can reduce some of the environmental footprint. It has been reported that it is more than 13.3 million farmers used biotechnology products to prevent damage from the yield cause by the pest.

3.    Conservation: Biotechnology also help us reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Medicine: In the field of medicine, Biotech has resulted in the discovery and mass production of 'small molecule pharmaceutical drug'. Other examples include Genetic testing and genetic diagnoses of diseases.

Agriculture: Biotech has led to the development of GMC (genetically modified crops) which was able to bring about Green revolution and increase world production of food approx. 10 times.

In animals, selective breeding and mutation breeding are examples of how Biotech has helped in factory farming methods.

Conservation: Biotechnology is being used to harness the potential of creating energy from plant-based sources such as Plankton and Algae. Biotech has also led to the development of trees and plants which are more resilient to climate change and can help in transforming communities  

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