Biotechnological Applications in Agriculture Biotechnological Applications in Medicine Transgenic Animals Ethical Issues Chapter 12 Biotechnology and its Applications 12.1 Biotechnological Applications in Agriculture 12.2 Biotechnological Applications in Medicine 12.3 Transgenic Animals 12.4 Ethical Issues Biotechnology, as you would have learnt from the previous chapter, essentially deals with industrial scale production of biopharmaceuticals and biologicals using genetically modified microbes, fungi, plants and animals. The applications of biotechnology include therapeutics, diagnostics, genetically modified crops for agriculture, processed food, bioremediation, waste treatment, and energy production. Three critical research areas of biotechnology are: (i) Providing the best catalyst in the form of improved organism usually a microbe or pure enzyme.…