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8.L.2 Biotechnology
Term | Definition |
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Biotechnology | the use of living cells bacteria to make useful products such as crops that insects are less likely to destroy or new kinds of medicine |
Agriculture | the science art ,or practice of cultivating the soil producing crops and raising livestock |
genetic modification | an organism that has had its DNA altered or modified |
Cloning | a plant or animal that is grown from one cell of its parent and that has exactly the same genes as its parent |
ethical | deciding whether something is right or wrong |
Bioremediation | treatment of waste using living organisms |
Transgenic Species | something that has part of another organism DNA in it |
Genome | an organisms complete set of DNA including all of its genes |