### science | biology:

Biotechnology
* Most biotechnology uses techniques.
* Some biotechnology depends upon genetic engineering.
* advances in oil affecting coconut production.
* advances, however, are predominantly taking place in the industrialized world.
* allows individual genes to be moved with precision from one plant to another
  - with precisionfrom one plant to another
  - mass production of proteins that are difficult to obtain otherwise
* already plays a major role in agriculture.
* also applies to non-food uses in significant ways
  - contributes to the elimination of pesticides
  - finds applications to conservation
  - has the potential of creating major advances in medicine
* also has the potential to bring forth a wave of new consumer products
  - remove allergens from foods like peanuts, soy, and wheat
  - helps breeders understand how closely parental lines are related
  - offers other potential benefits for poor people in developing countries
  - stands to improve human health
* appears to be leading a sudden biological revolution into the next century.
* applies the same principles to living organisms as do other technologies.
* associated with marine organisms field that projects a strong future.
* benefits both producers and consumers.
* big and controversial field of science.
* booming bussiness employing thousands of microbiologists.
* broad field
  - term for a very multi-faceted industry
  - umbrella encompassing the polarities of fundamental and applied research
* builds better crops and offers farmers improved profit opportunities.
* can also help address critical issues of malnutrition worldwide
  - reduce pressure on tropical rain forests
  - reduce allergens in foods
* can be a tool to overcome the food and food quality deficiency
  - one of the most important tools to maximize market returns
  - useful in increasing crop and animal yields
  - bring many benefits to medicine, the environment and industry
  - deliver better, more effective medicines
  - enhance the ability of existing pathogens to get past the weed's defenses
* can help alleviate hunger world-wide
  - create crops that can help keep our streams, lakes and rivers cleaner
  - grow crops resistant to plant disease and harmful insects
  - in producing more and better foods in developing countries
  - to reduce water use, soil erosion and emissions that add to climate change
* can improve nutrition among developing nations
  - productivity and, for example, reduce pesticide use
  - the quality, taste and nutritional benefits of food
  - lead to grains with more protein, vitamins or minerals
* can make agriculture less environmentally intrusive
  - great strides in food production
  - medicine better and more effective
  - mean different things to different people
  - now cross animals with plants, leaving the vegetarian confused
  - play a significant role in the future of agriculture
  - provide the means for enhancing current breeding programs
  - radically increase the speed of plant and animal breeding
* can reduce farmers' reliance on chemicals
  - the use of pesticides and herbicides
  - speed the selection and breeding of crops with desired traits
  - thus indirectly help to save energy
* can, for example, also benefit animals and the environment.
* case in which such an expansion has had recursive consequences.
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* combines biology with technology to produce new biological materials and processes.
* contributes to our ability to keep livestock healthy and productive.
* counts as one kind of nanotechnology, and at present remains by far the most advanced.
* covers a wide array of processes and procedures.
* cuts across many disciplines and impacts all of life
  - sectors of industry
* depends on the ability to manipulate chemical structure.
* developing industry with great promise for the future.
* difficult subject to get one's head around.
* driving force in the patent industry today
  - of change
* enables genes to be manipulated.
* encompasses a huge area of scientific knowledge, from manipulating genes to cloning.
* facilitates the precise modification of traits of interest.
* focuses on the mechanics of life processes and their application.
* frontier area of science with a high promise for the welfare of humanity.
* goes hand in hand with intensive monoculture, using single crops grown in huge fields.
* growing field providing many advances in numerous areas of human interest
  - science and industry
* growing, high risk industry.
* has a role in saving animal species from extinction.
* has an important role to play to improve nutrition values and food security worldwide
  - increasing social and ethical impact on our lives
  - applications in both plant and animal breeding
  - many facets and there career for almost everyone
  - some interesting applications
* has the potential to affect world agriculture dramatically
  - make agriculture much more productive
  - render crops virtually free from insects, disease and bacteria
  - save and improve millions of lives worldwide
  - tremendous potential to help fight hunger
* helps combat diseases
  - create safe and nutritious foods with some extra benefits
  - feed the world
* high-technology industry that employs highly trained personnel.
* holds great promise for American farmers and for the environment
  - promise for changing that picture and for poverty alleviation
* holds the future of tomatoes
  - promise of higher yields and disease free crops
* holds tremendous benefits for society
  - promise globally for food consumers, producers, and the environment
* impacts the continuity of life and evolution.
* improves on traditional methods by removing the guesswork.
* includes food, pharmaceuticals, and genomics
  - life sciences, biosciences and medical sciences
* increases the profits of only corporations.
* influences almost all areas of business, agriculture and medicine in today s world.
* involves swapping genetic coding between plants
  - the use of the natural processes found in microorganisms, plants and animals
  - using the latest in molecular biology for commercial applications
* is about making money for the biotech industry
  - all that stands between a burgeoning world population and starvation
  - also a competitive business
* is an applied science that uses the basic ingredients of life to make new products
  - area of biology that is growing rapidly
  - emergent technological sector with the consequent economic risks
  - evolution of traditional agricultural methods
  - exciting field and has tremendous potential to impact human health
  - important tool for fighting hunger
  - increasingly important, and controversial topic in agriculture
  - international boom industry
  - umbrella term for a series of different tools
* is another area of growing cooperation between the United States and Africa
  - means for generating new genotypes
  - tool for farmers to utilize to bring abundance to America
* is as old as industrial microbiology going back to pre-Biblical days
  - winemaking and animal husbandry, yet as new as recombinant DNA methods
  - at the apex of a reconfiguration of science, medicine, and agriculture
  - bad for human health
  - based on a mechanistic worldview developed more than four-hundred years ago
* is beneficial to both consumers and the environment
  - consumers, food processors and farmers
  - both an intellectual and an economic pursuit
  - compatible with sustainable agriculture
  - currently among the fastest growing fields in the world
* is currently one of the fastest expanding fields in the United States
  - most prominent new technologies
  - defined by the tools used to practice it
  - increasingly important in modern agriculture
  - likely to come up with new therapies for many more unconquered diseases
  - listed as an industry
  - on the verge of having a major economic impact
  - one field which has the potential to change the course of life itself
* is one of many ways to develop new products
  - the areas having a particularly hard time recruiting workers and scientists
* is one of the fastest growing industries is the world
  - sectors in the world economy
  - high-techs at the fastest development speed worldwide
  - industries state planners say can provide stable, good-paying jobs
  - key, expanding, high-tech areas of important economical impact
  - main growth areas in science
* is one of the most extensively researched agricultural developments ever
  - researched and reviewed agricultural developments ever
  - researched and reviewed developments in agriculture
  - prestigious, fastest growing sectors in the global economy
  - promising, and most controversial, technologies of our times
  - research-intensive industries in the world
  - world's fastest growing industrial sectors
  - the world s fastest growing and exciting scientific disciplines
  - primarily an economic tool
  - really no more than a name given to a set of techniques and processes
  - responsible for breakthroughs that have benefitted people for centuries
  - said to be the cure for world hunger
  - science's new frontier
  - simply the latest development in the evolution of agricultural methods
  - substantially a research driven technology requiring highly skilled labour
  - the application of all the basic stuff that's been put into their heads
* is the application of biological knowledge to useful ends
  - systems towards the manufacture of useful products
  - techniques to product research and development
  - engineering and technology in life science
  - business of biological sciences
  - commercial use of living organisms
  - development of products and services which are based on biological processes
  - direct manipulation of our genes
  - engineering of enhanced biological organs, genetics, and cloning
  - foundation for numerous areas of research
  - industry of the future
  - most powerful bundle of new technologies currently under development
  - practical application of biological science
  - prefect example of imperfection
* is the science of the present
  - using living organisms to improve our lives, health or environment
  - technology of the future
* is the use of living organisms to create or improve products
  - to make commercial products
  - things to make products
  - things, or life processes to make something useful
  - organisms or their products to improve human health and food production
  - to change the genetic makeup of living things for human purposes
  - therefore good for the environment
* is used as a tool to overcome domestication and marketing problems
  - to advance knowledge of cell reproduction and human disease
* is, of course, dependent on life itself.
* leads the way in medical innovation by confronting life's most threatening illnesses.
* literally means then the study of techniques applied in living systems.
* maintains varietal identity but can only improve traits under simple control.
* makes possible the development of crops protected from certain types of plant viruses.
* means different things to different people
  - lots of life forms
* multifaceted area of biological science with a wide range of applications.
* natural area for cooperation between Egypt and Israel.
* new field of study opening up in crop and soil sciences.
* new, vibrant discipline.
* now makes it possible to create previously undreamed-of vaccines.
* offers huge benefits for humankind, especially in medicine.
* offers the chance to change medicine forever
  - possibility of an essential change in medicine
  - potential to produce more food using fewer inputs and less land
* part of an ongoing biomolecular revolution and therefore a moving target
  - our daily lives
* plays a key role in waste treatment and remediation
  - an important part of our daily lives
* postgraduate course designed to prepare the participants for work in industry.
* potent and valuable tool that can help make foods more productive and nutritious.
* presents particular risks for disabled people
  - the possibility of correcting genetic disorders
* process that enhances taste, flavor and nutritional value of foods.
* produces safe, high quality and abundant crops, helping to keep food prices low.
* promises a range of benefits for people around the world.
* promises to improve the quality of life for people around the world
  - meet a wide range of human needs
* promising enviro-friendly solution to future world hunger.
* protects our environment.
* provides new, high nutrition foods such as vegetable oil from canola
  - treatments
* quantum leap in selective breeding and crop improvement.
* rapidly growing industry.
* relatively recent field of research and things are still moving in Europe
  - small industry, but is growing rapidly
* relies upon using safe, reliable, cultures and related resources.
* represents the fastest growing area of employment growth for the future
  - potential to improve the nutritional quality of food
* results from mergers of seed companies and pesticide companies.
* science that is most likely the science.
* still remains separate from nanotechnology efforts.
* symbolizes the liberation of the body.
* technical scientific issue.
* touches on central issues of life, human identity and religion.
* type of information technology.
* uses enzymes to bio-convert, synthesize or degrade molecules and chemicals
  - living organisms to create new products
  - technological science to improve plants and animals
* very popular study of science in the state of Iowa.