... of micro-organisms, cultured tissue cells and parts thereof. * The application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents to provide goods and services. * The use of living organisms and their components in agriculture, food and other industrial processes. * The integration of natural sciences and organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services. Whatever definition is used to describe biotechnology it is clear that the subject encompasses a wide range of "traditional" or "old" industries such as brewing, baking, cheese production and mushroom cultivation, together with the more recent "modern" technologies especially in the pharmaceutical industry (antibiotic production, vaccines and diagnostics) and other industries (food, paper, textiles and waste management). It is important to remember that biotechnology is not exclusively genetic engineering as many biotechnological processes merely harness completely natural (or un-engineered) products or systems and simply adapt them ...

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