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    Biotechnology is the use of living organisms to develop products and can be used to create drugs, vaccines, foods, and plastics. It is relevant to students by allowing them to learn how science has helped medicine, food, and the environment. Biotechnology can be beneficial by creating treatments for diseases, producing vitamin-rich foods, and developing sustainable plastics. However, it can also be detrimental if it reduces genetic diversity, has unintended consequences, risks human exploitation, or enables biological weapons. During the COVID-19 pandemic, biotechnology can help by developing vaccines and medicines to reduce virus transmission and by producing healthier foods for at-risk populations.

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    Biotechnology is the use of living organisms to develop products and can be used to create drugs, vaccines, foods, and plastics. It is relevant to students by allowing them to learn how science has helped medicine, food, and the environment. Biotechnology can be beneficial by creating treatments for diseases, producing vitamin-rich foods, and developing sustainable plastics. However, it can also be detrimental if it reduces genetic diversity, has unintended consequences, risks human exploitation, or enables biological weapons. During the COVID-19 pandemic, biotechnology can help by developing vaccines and medicines to reduce virus transmission and by producing healthier foods for at-risk populations.

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    Biotechnology is the use of living organisms to develop products and can be used to create drugs, vaccines, foods, and plastics. It is relevant to students by allowing them to learn how science has helped medicine, food, and the environment. Biotechnology can be beneficial by creating treatments for diseases, producing vitamin-rich foods, and developing sustainable plastics. However, it can also be detrimental if it reduces genetic diversity, has unintended consequences, risks human exploitation, or enables biological weapons. During the COVID-19 pandemic, biotechnology can help by developing vaccines and medicines to reduce virus transmission and by producing healthier foods for at-risk populations.

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    NOPUETO, Keana Marcelle C.

    FODMA5

    Answer the following questions briefly: 25 points

    1. What is Biotechnology? 5 points

    Biotechnology is technology that utilizes living organisms, biological systems or


    their parts to make and develop a new or different product. Traditional processes uses
    these organisms in their natural forms, while the modern process is making use of its
    more advanced modification in general.

    2. How is Biotechnology relevant to you as a student and as a person? 5 pts

    The relevance of biotechnology for me as a student is that I am able to learn and


    discover this type of technology so I can realize how much science has helped the world
    and its people in different fields and aspects. Biotechnology is the reason that
    technology has developed rapidly in medicine, food, environment and more. It helps us
    me as a person to live better, healthier, safer, and more conveniently in this world.

    3. How can Biotechnology be beneficial? Cite at least 4 examples. 5 points

    Biotechnology has helped in the creation of different drugs and vaccines, like
    AIDS and Alzheimer’s disease. It helps making safe and healthier foods, like “golden
    rice” which is rich in vitamin A. Plastics made out of corn and other plants can now be
    made to help sustain the environment. It helps increase food production by enhancing
    crops like soybeen, cotton to resist insects and herbicides.

    4. How can Biotechnology be detrimental? Cite at least 4 examples? 5pts

    The lack of genetic diversity causes an all-or-nothing approach. The processes


    can help improve crop yields and medical science, but it will come at a cost if it does not
    work. It will all go to waste and even threaten a species’ survival. Also, scientists do not
    know the outcome of what may happen. They’re facing a lot of risks, like tinkering with a
    genetics of a person with a disorder. It also has the risk of turning human life to a
    commodity, since making alterned DNA sequences for profit can minimize human or
    even plant life to profit potential. Lastly, this technology is also capable of making
    weapons that can harm masses. Just how medicines can be made to improve health,
    diseases can also be used wrongly as weapons.

    5. How can Biotechnology help alleviate the problem in terms of Covid-19


    pandemic? 5pts
    NOPUETO, Keana Marcelle C.
    FODMA5

    Just as how biotechnology has helped for years, it can also help our situation
    during the pandemic. In the medical field, it can help create different vaccines or
    medicine to lessen the risk of people catching the virus or helping them to be immune to
    it. In terms of food, the products they are able to create to help people be healthier will
    be able to keep them safe and physically strong while there is a pandemic going on,
    especially those with comorbidities.

    Sources:

    https://www.ntnu.edu/ibt/about-us/what-is-
    biotechnology#:~:text=Biotechnology%20is%20technology%20that%20utilizes,to%20pr
    oduce%20the%20desired%20product).

    https://archive.bio.org/articles/biotechnology-solutions-everyday-life

    https://vittana.org/11-biotechnology-pros-and-cons

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