Tec — The Education Consultancy

Topics covered

• Introduction to biotechnology — its history, definitions, and the scope and importance across medicine, agriculture, industry, and the environment
• Fermentation — anaerobic respiration, lactic acid fermentation, and alcoholic fermentation, and their role in bread rising
• Fermentation as a food preservation technique, its industrial applications, and the role of the fermentor
• Genetic engineering and its uses — the steps involved, and tools such as restriction enzymes, DNA ligase, plasmids, and bacteriophages
• Major achievements of genetic engineering — vaccines, gene therapy, GM foods, insulin production, and the p-53 gene
• Single cell protein (SCP) and its uses — origin, composition, and applications in food and animal feed