Question

The EFB has given a definition of biotechnology that encompasses both traditional views and modern molecular biotechnology. The definition given by EFB is as follows:

• A. The use of bio-resources by multinational companies and other organisation without proper authorization from the countries and people concerned without compensatory payment
• B. The integration of natural science and organisms, cells, parts thereof, and molecular analogues for products and services
• C. Industrial scale production of biopharmaceuticals and biologicals using genetically modified microbes, fungi, plants and animals
• D. Techniques to alter the chemistry of genetic material (DNA and RNA), to introduce these into host organisms and thus change the phenotype of the host organism

Answer 1

The correct option is B The integration of natural science and organisms, cells, parts thereof, and molecular analogues for products and services

The European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB) has given a definition of biotechnology that encompasses both traditional views and modern molecular biotechnology. The definition given by EFB is as follows:
'The integration of natural science and organisms, cells, parts thereof, and molecular analogues for products and services'.