1. Agriculture

2. Biotechnology is being applied to microbes, plants, and animals to produce useful products or to improve species.

3. Genetic Engineering
Human manipulation of an organism's genome using modern DNA technology.
Allows plant and animal breeders to incorporate genes for desirable traits from any species into an unrelated species

4. Application Improved crop plants with resistance to disease or insects
Pharmaceuticals made from plants and animals
More nutritious food and animal feeds
tools to clean up soils and water
Diagnostic tools for animal and plant diseases
Industrial products such as fuels and plastics made from plants and trees.

5. Plants Crops Crops with built-in insect or virus resistance
Crops with built-in tolerance to herbicides
Crops with built-in tolerance to marginal conditions (temperature, pH, salinity, etc.)
Ornamental horticultural products with improved color and other qualities
Fiber plants with built-in color or fiber qualities

6. Plants Pharmaceuticals Food
Plants that produce edible vaccines and other pharmaceuticals
Food
Food products with improved taste and nutritional qualities
Food with improved handling and processing qualities

7. Plants Industrial Other
Plants that produce plastics, fuels, and other products
Plants for environmental cleanup
Other
Pesticides made from naturally-occurring microorganisms and insects
Diagnostic kits for improved on-site diagnosis of plant disease

8. Animals Breeding Animals with built-in disease resistance
Animals cloned to produce exact copies of desired stock
Animals bred to produce increased yields of meat, eggs & milk

9. Animals
Food
Engineered hormones reintroduced into cows to increase milk production
Engineered hormones reintroduced into pigs to produce leaner meat
Farm-raised fish using growth hormones that result in earlier market-ready fish

10. Animals
Animal Health
Microorganisms introduced into animal feeds for beneficial purposes
Accurate sensitive diagnostics to assist in disease detection, pregnancy detection

11. Animals Pharmaceuticals
Animals engineered to produce human proteins for drugs, including insulin, human plasminogen activator, and vaccines.
Animals engineered to produce organs suitable for transplantation into humans

12. Environment
Engineered plants and microorganisms to break down contaminated soils and water
Animal waste management by natural means, using plants and microorganisms

13. Food Enzymes that aid in production of food products
Techniques that detect the presence of food spoilage organisms