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biotechnology
Definition:
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A combination of biology and technology. It is used to describe developments in the application of biological organisms for commercial and scientific purposes. So "bio" stands for biology and the science of life, and "tech" stands for technology, or the tools and techniques that the biotechnologists have in their workbox. Those tools and techniques include microorganisms and a range of methods for manipulating them, such as genetic engineering.
* Note: Definition is not available for the current language
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experiment |
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technology | |
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agricultural biotechnology |
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biological engineering | |
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genetic engineering | |
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health-related biotechnology | |
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fermentation |
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socioeconomic impact of biotechnologies | |
Scope note:
scope note is not available
Groups:
RESEARCH, SCIENCES
Themes:
biology
industry
Other relations:
- Has exact match
- AGROVOC: Biotechnology
- EuroVoc: biotechnology
- Wikipedia article
- Biotechnology
- Has close match
- UMTHES: Biotechnologie
| Arabic: | التكنولوجيا الحيوية |
| Basque: | bioteknologia |
| Bulgarian: | Биотехнология |
| Catalan: | biotecnologia |
| Chinese: | 生物技术 |
| Croatian: | biotehnologija |
| Czech: | biotechnologie |
| Danish: | bioteknologi |
| Dutch: | biotechnologie |
| English: | biotechnology |
| Estonian: | biotehnoloogia |
| Finnish: | biotekniikka |
| French: | biotechnologie |
| German: | Biotechnologie |
| Greek: | βιοτεχνολογία |
| Hungarian: | biotechnológia |
| Irish: | biteicneolaíocht |
| Italian: | biotecnologia |
| Latvian: | biotehnoloģija |
| Lithuanian: | biotechnologija |
| Maltese: | bijoteknoloġija |
| Norwegian: | bioteknologi |
| Polish: | biotechnologia |
| Portuguese: | biotecnologia |
| Romanian: | biotehnologie |
| Russian: | биотехнология |
| Slovak: | biotechnológia |
| Slovenian: | biotehnologija |
| Spanish: | biotecnología |
| Swedish: | bioteknik |
| Turkish: | biyoteknoloji |
| Ukrainian: | біотехнологія |
Concept URL: <http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/898>
