 | Administrative law - 2001 - 622 pages
...instruments has been delegated. (d) Biotechnology means any technique that uses living organisms (or parts of organisms) to make or modify products, to improve...animals, or to develop microorganisms for specific use. The development of materials that mimic molecular structures or functions of living systems is... | |
 | Administrative law - 2000 - 618 pages
...instruments has been delegated. (d) Biotechnology means any technique that uses living organisms (or parts of organisms) to make or modify products, to improve...animals, or to develop microorganisms for specific use. The development of materials that mimic molecular structures or functions of living systems is... | |
 | Consumer protection - 1987 - 426 pages
...civilization. Broadly defined, biotechnology means any technique that uses living organisms (or parts of organisms) to make or modify products, to improve...animals, or to develop microorganisms for specific uses. For centuries, simple forms of biotechnology have been used to crossbreed plants and animals and to... | |
 | Consumer protection - 1988 - 452 pages
...biotechnology." Biotechnology is an umbrella term for the use of living organisms (or their byproducts) to make or modify products, to improve plants or animals, or to develop microorganisms for specific uses. It originated in practice over 8,000 years ago, when people learned to make beer with yeast. Farmers... | |
 | DNA - 1986 - 588 pages
...processes. Applied to agriculture and forestry, It is any technique that uses living biological systems to make or modify products, to improve plants or animals, or to develop microorganisms for specific uses. Although the use of living biological systems in the genetic manipulation of organisms dates from man's... | |
 | United States. President - Science and state - 1986 - 1266 pages
...Convention's trust fund. BIOTECHNOLOGY Biotechnology is the use of living organisms or their components to make or modify products, to improve plants or animals, or to develop microorganisms for specific use. As such, biotechnology relies both on the basic research contributions of diverse scientific and... | |
 | Agriculture and state - 1986 - 592 pages
...novel techniques for manipulating genetic information so as to employ "living organisms (or parts of organisms) to make or modify products, to improve...or to develop micro-organisms for specific uses." These techniques are novel in that they have been discovered (or, as in the case of plant cell and... | |
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Biotechnology, broadly defined, includes any technique that uses living organisms (or parts of organisms) to make or modify products, to improve plants or animals, or to develop micro-organisms for specific uses. 
