Biotechnology / Mohan P. Arora ; edited by Chander Kanta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arora, Mohan P.

Contributor:

Kanta, Chander.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biotechnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (453 p.)

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

Mumbai [India] : Himalaya Pub. House, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Biotechnology, an enabling technology, is the growing and most rapidly changing subject which has created a number of new opportunities for the upliftment of human society. It has a broad applications in many diverse aspects of basic research, industry, and commerce. It is a broad field that employs an industrial technology based on the biological synthesis of important chemical compounds, especially proteins (insulin), genetic engineering of plants and animals, and other, related technologies. It also manipulates the genetic information of an organism to allow the characteristics of that orga

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CELL ORGANISATION; CHROMOSOMES; NUCLEIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL REPLICATION; ENZYMES OF DNA SYNTHESIS; RIBONUCLEIC ACID (RNA); RNA BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; GENETIC CODE; NATURE OF THE GENETIC MATERIAL; CONCEPT OF GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ACTION AND RELATED DISEASES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; TRANSGENIC ORGANISMS; DNA CLONING AND FINGERPRINTS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENE THERAPY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY; GENETICS OF IMMUNITY; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; VACCINE BIOTECHNOLOOGY; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; GLOSSARY; INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-282-80400-6

9786612804007

93-5043-978-6

1-4416-6169-7

600-00-2767-2

OCLC:

782856321