| Biotechnology - 1987 - 276 pages
...Assessment defined biotechnology as. "any technique that uses living organisms to make or modify products, to improve plants or animals, or to develop micro-organisms for specific purposes." The fledgling field of biotechnology, in fact, owes its existence in large measure to the sustained... | |
| Drugs - 1993 - 380 pages
...biotechnology. Biotechnology: Any technique that uses living organisms, or substances from those organisms, to make or modify a product, to improve plants or...animals, or to develop micro-organisms for specific uses. Book value: The current values of capital assets claimed by a company in its financial statements... | |
| T. B. Mepham - Agricultural innovations - 1996 - 196 pages
...BIOTECHNOLOGY 'Biotechnology' has been defined as encompassing 'any technique that uses living organisms, to make or modify a product, to improve plants or animals, or to develop microorganisms for special uses'.4 Clearly, in terms of food, such a definition includes many traditional practices in... | |
| Kazuo N. Watanabe, Eija Pehu - Science - 1997 - 247 pages
...United States Congress as "any technique that uses living organisms, or substances from those organisms, to make or modify a product, to improve plants or...animals, or to develop micro-organisms for specific uses."4 Plant cell and tissue culture, molecular biology, biochemistry and plant breeding are basically... | |
| Donald O. Mitchell, Merlinda D. Ingco, Ronald C. Duncan - Business & Economics - 1997 - 238 pages
...United States Congress as 'any technique that uses living organisms, or substances from those organisms, to make or modify a product, to improve plants or animals, or to develop micro organisms for specific uses' (United States, Office of Technology Assessment 1989). Biotechnology... | |
| Montague Yudelman, Annu Ratta, David F. Nygaard - Technology & Engineering - 1998 - 65 pages
...defined biotechnology as "any technique that uses living organisms, or substances from those organisms, to make or modify a product, to improve plants or...animals, or to develop micro-organisms for specific uses" (Persley 1994). The use of biotechnology for the improved management of pests encompasses: 1... | |
| Ralph David Simpson - Business & Economics - 1999 - 234 pages
...materials. Biotechnology and Genetics Biotechnology comprises any technique that uses living organisms to make or modify a product, to improve plants or animals, or to develop microorganisms for specific use (Haines 1994a, 1994b). In the tree-growing industry, genetic research takes two forms. First is... | |
| E. M. T. El-Mansi, C. F. A. Bryce - Technology & Engineering - 1999 - 336 pages
...Biotechnology has been defined as any technique that uses living organisms, or substances from those organisms, to make or modify a product, to improve plants or animals, or to develop microorganisms for specific uses. It is clear from this broad, generic definition that biotechnology need not necessarily be considered... | |
| Thomas S. Jayne - Business & Economics - 2002 - 294 pages
...definition of biotechnology is any technique that uses living organisms or substances from those organisms to make or modify a product, to improve plants or animals, or to develop microorganisms for specific uses. Biotechnology has been with us since the dawn of man — beer brewing and bread baking are two... | |
| Ruth F. Chadwick, Doris Schroeder - Applied ethics - 2002 - 384 pages
...biotechnology 'Biotechnology' has been defined as encompassing 'any technique that uses living organisms, to make or modify a product, to improve plants or animals, or to develop microorganisms for special uses.'4 Clearly, in terms of food, such a definition includes many traditional practices in... | |
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