biotechnology

The use of technology, based on living systems, to develop processes and products for commercial, scientific or other purposes. These include specific techniques of plant regeneration and gene manipulation and transfer. In the past, producers used cross-hybridization to alter a plant's genetic makeup. With biotechnology, DNA can be altered directly. Biological manipulation of living organisms to produce foods, drugs, and other products for humans. See [[genetic engineering]].

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