Which of the following is not an example of biotechnology research? A.Environmental contaminants B.Removing food allergies C.Developing more effective types of insulin D.Analyzing the composition of planets

is the use of living systems and organisms to make useful products.

Examples of biotechnology: 1. Making antibiotics in large quantities. A penicillin factory in Europe.

2. Making other medications, such as insulin (for diabetes). Insulin was extracted from pigs until the 1980s. Today, human insulin producing DNA is placed into a bacteria that create exact copies of human insulin.

3. Catching criminals. Like your fingerprints, your DNA is unique, and so people can be identified by their DNA. This woman is collecting DNA evidence from blood at a fake crime scene.

Genetic modification or genetic engineering – use of biotechnology techniques to insert a gene from one organism into another. Example, GM cotton has a gene from a naturally occurring soil bacterium to provide it with insect resistance. WARNING: It doesn't always workIt doesn't always work

Another example of Genetic Engineering These bananas have been genetically modified to produce vaccines. Click Me

Bioremediation - form of biotechnology that does not change an organism’s genes. Instead, it uses existing kinds of bacteria to clean up the environment. Genetic engineers have used certain kinds of bacteria to eat oil.

Some radioactive materials can be eaten by certain bacteria.

Cloning - a process by which identical copies of an organism are made. The copy, or clone, possesses exactly the same genetic material as the original organism. Some kinds of plants can be cloned just by cutting off a piece and planting it. Cloning can also bring extinct animals back into existence. Woolly Mammoth went extinct 23,000 years ago

A woolly mammoth was pulled out of ice in 1999 in Siberia. Meet me Another one was found in 2014 Hi! I'm Buttercup. Buttercup’s teeth

Dolly, the sheep, was the first cloned mammal. Lived

8. Not everyone agrees with advances in biotechnology, especially GMO in foods. Many feel DNA alteration is unnatural. GMO controversy