<p>Name: ______Period: ______Date: ______Practical Applications of Biotechnology:</p><p>TOOLS</p><p>1. Define biotechnology.</p><p>2. One-celled microorganisms most commonly used in bioprocessing technology are ______and ______.</p><p>3. What do we call the biomolecular components that are used most often? What do they do?</p><p>4. For thousands of years, we’ve used microbial fermentation (bioprocessing) for what? </p><p>5. Now what do we rely on? </p><p>6. What do we use besides microbial cells? </p><p>7. What is genetic engineering (recombinant DNA technology)? </p><p>8. What does GMO stand for? What is an example of a GMO? AGRICULTURE APPLICATIONS</p><p>1. What is our world’s population today? What is our world’s population expected to reach by 2030? </p><p>2. How can biotechnology help meet these ever-increasing needs? CROP BIOTECHNOLOGY</p><p>1. What did our earliest farmers do for “traditional crossbreeding”? </p><p>2. What is a disadvantage of “crossbreeding”? </p><p>3. What does biotechnology allow plant breeders to do? </p><p>4. What are biofuels (another agricultural application)? </p><p>5. From what is ethanol is produced? </p><p>6. What can ethanol help reduce? </p><p>7. Biofuels can help the U.S. reduce its dependence on ______. FOREST BIOTECHNOLOGY</p><p>1. How is biotechnology helping the forest industry? </p><p>2. Explain why we would want to change the tree’s cellulose-to-lignin ratio. </p><p>3. How could this type of biotechnology affect global warming? </p><p>4. Biotechnology is also helping to produce enzymes for cleaning contaminated soil with what? ANIMAL BIOTECHNOLOGY</p><p>1. What is the market for biotechnology-based animal health products and services? Name: ______Period: ______Date: ______</p><p>2. What are some benefits that biotechnology provides for farm animals? </p><p>3. How do pets benefit from biotechnology? </p><p>4. What is a transgenic animal? </p><p>5. How have transgenic cows, pigs and lambs been genetically modified for food production? </p><p>6. How can biotechnology help endangered species? MEDICAL AND HEALTH CARE APPLICATIONS</p><p>1. How has biotechnology helped in human health care? </p><p>2. What diseases to-date have been treated using biotechnology therapeutics (approved by the FDA)? </p><p>3. What is the common foundation these therapies share? CHEMICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS</p><p>1. What is “industrial biotechnology”? </p><p>2. What is petroleum what is the most common product it is used for? </p><p>3. What is the advantage of using a “living system” over a man-made chemical plant? </p><p>4. Finally, biotechnology is also yielding new methods for what?</p>