What is Biotechnology ?
Biotechnology generally refers to the use of microorganisms to produce certain chemical compounds. Long before the term "biotechnology" was coined for the process of using living organisms to produce improved commodities, people were utilizing living micro-organisms to produce valuable products. A list of early biotechnology applications are as followed:
| Proving bread with leaven | prehistoric period |
| Fermentation of juices to alcoholic beverages | prehistoric period |
| Knowledge of vinegar formation from fermented juices | prehistoric period |
| Cultivation of vine | before 2000 BC |
| Manufacture of beer in Babylonia and Egypt | 3rd century BC |
| Wine growing promoted by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Probus | 3rd century AD |
| Production of spirits of wine (ethanol) | 1150 |
| Vinegar manufacturing industry | 14th century |
| Discovery of the fermentation properties of yeast by Erxleben | 1818 |
| Description of lactic acid fermentation by Pasteur | 1857 |
| Detection of fermentation enzymes in yeast by Buchner | 1897 |
| Discovery of penicillin by Fleming | 1928/29 |
| Discovery of many other antibiotics | from about 1945 |
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