BIOTECH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does biotech mean? 

• BIOTECH (noun)
  The noun BIOTECH has 1 sense:

1. the branch of molecular biology that studies the use of microorganisms to perform specific industrial processes

  Familiarity information: BIOTECH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIOTECH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of molecular biology that studies the use of microorganisms to perform specific industrial processes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

biotech; biotechnology

Context example:

biotechnology produced genetically altered bacteria that solved the problem

Hypernyms ("biotech" is a kind of...):

molecular biology (the branch of biology that studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life (and especially with their genetic role))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biotech"):

bioremediation (the branch of biotechnology that uses biological process to overcome environmental problems)

gene-splicing; genetic engineering; recombinant DNA technology (the technology of preparing recombinant DNA in vitro by cutting up DNA molecules and splicing together fragments from more than one organism)

 Context examples 

Development of synthesis processes for nucleic acids and peptides by the biotech industry.

(Biotechnology, Synthetic Nucleic Acid Peptide, NCI Thesaurus)

Development of fermentation processes for the biotech industry.

(Biotechnology, Fermentation, NCI Thesaurus)

Now, an international team of researchers from the UK and USA, working with biotech company SomaLogic, has shown that large-scale measurement of proteins in a single blood test can provide important information about our health and can help to predict a range of different diseases and risk factors.

(Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk, University of Cambridge)

GM crops have expanded beyond corn, soybeans, cotton and canola to give more choices for the world’s consumers and food producers, Paul Teng, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) chair, said.

(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)