Basics of Biotechnology
What has come to be called "biotechnology" and the genetic enhancement of agricultural products may be one of the oldest human activities. For thousands of years, from the time human communities began to settle in one place, cultivate crops and farm the land, humans have manipulated the genetic nature of the crops and animals they raise. Crops have been bred to improve yields...
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Plant Biotechnology Basics
For centuries, humankind has made improvements to crop plants through selective breeding and hybridization — the controlled pollination of plants.
Plant biotechnology is an extension of this traditional plant breeding with one very important...
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How Biotechnology Works
The DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) from different organisms is essentially the same — simply a set of instructions that directs cells to make the proteins that are the basis of life. Whether the DNA is...
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The Benefit of Biotechnology?
Now and in the near future, the products of food biotechnology provide food quality improvements which include better taste and healthier foods.
Agronomic or "input" traits create value by giving plants the ability to do things that increase production or reduce the need for other inputs such as...
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