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Biotech

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