CONTENTS:- Introduction; Genes; Structure and protection synthesis; Tools of genetic engineering; Techniques of genetic engineering; Animal cell, Tissues and organ culture; Application of animal cell culture; Reproductive technology; Transgenic Animals; DNA biotechnology for Human Welfare; Monoclonal antibodies and hybridoma cells; Plant cell and tissue culture; Transgenic plants; Biotechnology of nitrogen fixation; Fermentation Biotechnology; Enzyme biotechnology; Single cell protein, Glossary.
DESCRIPTION
Biotechnology emerged as a new research field that arose as a result of the fusion in the late 1970s of recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid technology and traditional industrial microbiology. As its simplest it is the commercial exploitation of living organisms or their components e.g., enzymes. Thus the science formerly known as industrial microbiology clearly falls within the definition of biotechnology and to many they are synonymous.
