Science is the study of how the universe works using the scientific method as a framework for asking questions. Throughout history humans have built up a body of scientific knowledge and have used this knowledge to develop technologies to make life easier or to broaden their knowledge. Scientific discovery drives technological advances and sometimes as new technologies are developed they enable scientists to answer questions that were unanswerable before.
For example researchers had to understand the physics of visible light and how it changes when going through different substances before they could use this knowledge to design microscopes. Once microscope technology was developed it allowed scientists to ask questions about things that were not visible to the human eye. For this assignment you will look at this interdependence between science and technology by learning more about a biotechnology that is crucial to the modern world such as feeding a growing world population fighting disease developing new fuels or cleaning up the environment.
To learn more about biotechnology review the assigned readings in your textbook for this unit and review the following resources:
Select one specific biotechnology that you are interested in learning more about. It can be a broad category such as one type of cloning or more focused such as a specific product or diagnostic test. For your selected biotechnology address the following:
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