what does a biotechnology do
Insulin crystals. Biotechnology is the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make products, or any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use (UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Art. 2). White biotechnology, also known as industrial biotechnology, is biotechnology applied to industrial processes. 2  An example is the designing of an organism to produce a useful chemical.