Biotechnology

Biotechnology Jones 1 The Pros of Biotechnology Biotechnology can be used to help humans. As essayist Cecie Starr and Ralph Taggart write “biotechnology can be used to cure rare diseases.” Biotechnology can be used to help any form of life from plants to animals and even food. For more than three billion years, nature has been conducting uncountable numbers of genetic experiments. Biotechnology is a specific science that lets us find the most beneficial traits of any living life form. Researchers use recombinant DNA technology to look at genetic changes. Recombinant DNA lets laboratory specialist cut DNA from different species and put the molecules from it into bacteria or other types of cells. Researchers also use genetic engineering when doing their homophone experiments. Genetic engineering means to isolate, modify and insert genes back into the same organism or back into a different one. This technology originated with bacteria. Bacterial cells have a single chromosome that has all the genes they need to have to grow and reproduce. But a lot of species also have something called plasmids. Plasmids are small molecules of DNA that have genes in them. Restriction enzymes are able to dna, genes, biotechnology, help, genetic, way, researchers, lab, gene, organism, off, new, make, human, find, diseases, died, using, through, one, living, lets, give, genome, family, doing, disease, cut, chromosomes, cells, bacteria, world, victims, traits, test, technology, sperm, specific, species, specialist, seeing, same, rflp’s, research, recombinant, put, project, plasmids, out, myriad