Biotechnology Intro
5 Rules of Lab Safety
Closed toed shoes
Wear safety gear, Person Protective Equipment
Chemical safety, store chemicals properly
Safety Equipment, know locations of equipment
Lab behavior, don't mess around and clean up after
Biotechnology
Biotechnology has no correct application for it, as there are many fields that rely on it. The most prominent is medicine and agriculture, which help improve lives of ourselves and protect the food we eat.
Color branches of Biotechnology*
Gold Biotechnology is Bio-informatics, or computational biology. Gold Biotechnology addresses problems in Biotechnology with computers.
Red Biotechnology is Biopharma, which related to medicine products. Red Biotechnology helps produce vaccines, antibiotics, and more.
White Biotechnology, is inspired by industrial biotechnology, and it's goal is to create less damaging processes, like pollution, that beat traditional processes.
Yellow Biotechnology, is the use of biotechnology in food production, like wine, cheese, yogurt, and more by fermentation
Grey Biotechnology is environmental applications. This uses microorganisms and plants to dispose of certain wates like hydrocarbons
Green Biotechnology is agricultural applications. This includes bio-fertilizers and bio-pesticides, but this also contains genetic edits to produce to made the produce more resilient to weather and pests
Blue Biotechnology is marine applications
Violet Biotechnology is applications in law. This engages in ethical and philosophical area of biotechnology
Dark Biotechnology is related to bio-terrorism and biological weapons. This is bio-warfare using microorganisms to destroy and cause death on food
Historic Applications
One of the most influential discoveries in more recent times is Clustered Regularly Interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR).
Yogurt is the oldest known example of biotechnology in history. Thought to have been discovered on accident, by transporting milk on camels in Egypt/