Definition of Biotechnology

             Definition of Biotechnology,

Biotechnology  consists of "the controlled use of biological agents, Such as, micro-organisms or cellular components, for beneficial use."                                                                                                                                                        -U.S National Science Foundation,

Biotechnology is "the integrated use of of biochemistry, microbiology And engineering science in order to achieve technological application of the capabilities of micro-organisms, cultured tissue/cells and parts thereof."                                                                                                                                                                        -European Federation of Biotechnology, 

Biotechnology comprises the "controlled and deliberate application of simple biological agents living or dead, cells or cell components-in technically useful operations, either of productive manufacture or as service operation."                                                                                                                                                          -J.D. Bu'lock,1987,

"The application of biological organisms, systems or processes" constitutes biotechnology.                                                                                     -British Biotechnologist,

Biotechnology may be defined as "the use of living organisms in system or processes for the manufacture of useful products: it may involve algae, bacteria, fungi, yeast, cells, of higher plants and animals or subsystems of any of these or isolated components from living matter."                                                                                                                                                                                                                           -Gibbs and Greenhalgh, 1983,