biotechnological

Living systems engineering

Biotechnological describes things relating to biotechnology—the use of living organisms or biological systems to develop products and processes.

The term appears in scientific, industrial, and policy contexts: biotechnological advances in medicine, biotechnological applications in agriculture.

A biotechnological approach might involve genetic engineering, fermentation, or cell culture techniques.

genetic

genome

Organism's total hereditary material

recombinant · genomics · plasmid · knockout · mutation · allele · nucleotide · polymerase · transcription · cytogenetics

industrial

bioreactor

Vessel for growing organisms

biofuel · bioplastic · lab-grown · microbial · enzymatic · biorefinery · scale-up · biomanufacturing · yeast · bacterial

research

bioinformatics

Computational analysis of genetic data

high-throughput · sequencing · assay · screening · biobank · laboratory · publication

agricultural

crop

Cultivated agricultural plants

biofortification · yield · biopesticide · biofertilizer · aquaculture · hybrid · germplasm

medical

pharmaceutical

Manufactured medicinal compound

therapeutic · antibody · clinical · nanomedicine · prosthetic · oncology · diagnosis · transplant · drug-delivery · biologics

Opposites
technological basis

biotechnologicalmechanical

Operated by machinery

non-biological · mechanistic · electromechanical · inorganic · abiotic

naturalness vs artificiality

biotechnologicalsynthetic

Produced artificially, not natural

artificial · inert · petrochemical · metallic

naturalness/artificiality

biotechnologicalnatural

Not artificially produced

organic · wild · unmodified · traditional · conventional

Family

biology, technology, biological, biotech, biometrics, biotechnology, biologic, bioengineering, biomedical

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