Term | Definition |
Therapeutics | It cures or reduces the
disease. |
Diagnostics | It tests health or
disease states. |
Agricultural | Perfecting crop/animals for better products. |
Bioremediation | It is making biotechnology-designed
organisms to clean up oil or
other spills. |
Bioindustry suppliers | Making chemicals, software, and equipment for other bio industries. |
Procedures | Genetic engineering, cell culture
techniques, cultivation of microorganisms, and fermenting in baking/cooking. |
Genetic engineering | It isolates genes, modifies genes so they function
better, prepares genes to be inserted into a
new species, and to develop transgenes |
Autoimmune disorders | A disorder where the immune system
attacks and destroys healthy body tissue on mistake. |
Chemical bases | DNA:Adenine (A), Guanine (G), Cytosine (C) and Thymine (T). |
Cloning | To make genetically identical molecules, cells, plants or
animals. |
DNA | The genetic material of most living organisms. |
Fermentation | The anaerobic conversion of sugar to carbon dioxide and alcohol by
yeast. |
DNA fingerprinting | A test to identify and evaluate the genetic information called DNA
in a person's cells. |
Genes | A region of DNA that controls a hereditary characteristic. |
Gene therapy | A technique for correcting defective genes responsible for disease
development. |
Human genome map | The finished mapped out sequence of the human genome. |
Human Genome Project | An international scientific research project
goal to identify and map the approximately 20,000–25,000 genes of the human genome. |