VPB 321: Animal Biotechnology (2+1)

Definition for Biotechnology

BIOTECHNOLOGY

• Biotechnology is defined as “the application of biological organisms systems or processes to manufacturing and service industries”(Coombs, 1984).
• It is also defined as “the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents to produce goods and services” (Coleman, 1986). In this, the word “agent” denotes a wide range of biological things such as enzymes, whole cells or multicellular organisms. Services and goods mean such processes as waste-water treatment.
• The scientific and engineering principles are chiefly microbiology, biochemistry, genetics, biochemical and chemical engineering.
• The term biotechnology was coined by Karl Ereky (1917)