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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459685003321

Autore

Arora Mohan P

Titolo

Biotechnology [[electronic resource] /] / Mohan P. Arora ; edited by Chander Kanta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-282-80400-6

9786612804007

93-5043-978-6

1-4416-6169-7

600-00-2767-2

Edizione

[Rev. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (453 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KantaChander

Disciplina

660.6

Soggetti

Biotechnology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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