Warm Up: 1/13 Label the following pages in your notebook: Quarter 2 Grade Biotechnology Artificial Selection

History of Biotechnology With your partner, match the years to when you think each event happened. Let’s check your work… Using this information, define biotechnology.

Biotechnology I think biotechnology is… Biotechnology is the manipulation of organisms to create products that affect human health and the environment

Unit 7 Vocabulary - Biotechnology WORDIMAGEEXAMPLEDEFINITION biotech nology cloningthe manipulation of organisms to create products that affect human health and the environment

What is biotechnology? Youtube Video Brainpop Video As you watch, write examples in your notes.

Where does biotechnology fit? Biotechnology: applying what we know about life forms or processes to make a product or solve a problem (often for profit). “Old” biotech- we have been using microbes to make products like wine, beer, yogurt, cheese, for a long time. “New” biotech: uses DNA and proteins in novel ways, building on recent discoveries at the molecular level. Sometimes called “genetic engineering.”

Unit 7 Vocabulary WORDIMAGEEXAMPLEDEFINITION artificial selection selective breeding and cross- breeding to purposely breed certain plants or animals to produce offspring with desirable characteristics

Artificial Selection What is it?How does it work? to purposely breed certain plants or animals to produce offspring with desirable characteristics How does it make a Positive Impact? How does it make a Negative Impact? ReasonsEvidenceReasonsEvidence

Homework: Work on your Biotech HW assignment.