- 1生物科技、生技（台灣習慣）；大陸較常說「生物技術」
Biotechnology is using living things — cells, bacteria, yeasts, plants — as tools: to make drugs, destroy waste, make food, or change crops. The old kind is everywhere and quiet: yeast in bread and beer, bacteria in yoghurt. The modern kind, which is what people usually mean, is the lab kind: putting a useful gene into bacteria so they make insulin, growing cells to make vaccines, designing crops that fight pests. News and business talk love the short shine of the word; it can sound like science fiction. Though actually a lot of it is slow factory work, and it is not the same as “all of biology.” Biology asks how life works. Biotechnology asks how we can get living things to do a job for us. Genetic engineering is one famous tool inside it, not the whole bag.
From the word’s history
bio- + technology.
由 bio-「生命」加上 technology 組成。
組成bio- (life) + technology (tools and methods). So: technology that uses living things.
同家族的字
- biologyshares bio-, life
- technologythe second half is the word technology
- biotechnologicalthe adjective form
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
biotechnologynoun/ˌbaɪ.əʊˌtɛkˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
- 1
The use of living organisms (especially microorganisms) in industrial, agricultural, medical and other technological applications.
- Japan's strength lies in more traditional biotechnology such as fermentation.
- The developments in biotechnology, particularly with the basic understanding of genetics, immunology, biochemistry, biochemical engineering and molecular biology, have paved the way for major biotechnology products and processes and have provided tools to the manufacturing and service industry.
- 2
The application of the principles and practices of engineering and technology to the life sciences.
- Agricultural biotechnology comprises a collection of scientific techniques, including genetic engineering, that are used to modify and improve plants, animals and microorganisms for human profit. Agricultural biotechnologies are not a substitute for conventional plant and animal breeding, but can be a powerful complement to improving the efficiency and sustainability of agricultural production.
- 2008, Yutaka Tanaka, Attitude toward Bioethics and Acceptance of Biotechnology, William G. Flynne (editor), Biotechnology and Bioengineering, page 175, The result of study 3 suggests that the factor of bioethics is important not only for the acceptance of biotechnologies themselves, such as gene recombination technology and clone technology, but also the acceptance of foods and products which are produced by the use of biotechnologies.
- 3
genetic engineering
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