Biotechnology is the use ofliving systems and organisms to develop or make products, or "anytechnological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, orderivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specificuse" (UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Depending on the tools andapplications, it often overlaps with the (related) fields of bioengineering,biomedical engineering, bio manufacturing, molecular engineering, etc.
Biotechnology also utilizes theseproducts for manufacturing purpose. Some of the examples of drugs producedthrough biotechnology are penicillin, lincomycin, streptomucin, tylosin,peptide antibiotics, cephalosporins, etc. Modern use of similar terms includesgenetic engineering as well as cell and tissue culture technologies.Biotechnology draws on the pure biological sciences and in many instances isalso dependent on knowledge and methods from outside the sphere of biology.Conversely, modern biological sciences are intimately entwined and dependent onthe methods developed through biotechnology and what is commonly thought of asthe life sciences industry.
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