Biotechnology combines engineering and biological science and involves scientists using living cells or organisms to produce products or services. Baking bread is an example of biotechnology ...

Crops directly feed us or animals we keep for food. They are commonly cereals, fruit and vegetables. We can change (or modify) crops in two key ways - selective breeding and genetic modification.

History provides us with many examples of yucky biotechnology: GM crops containing insecticidal bacterial genes; mice engrafted with human ears on their backs; baboons with transgenic pig hearts ...

Examples of these that are used today include ... but has also been very controversial. In agricultural biotechnology, changes are made directly to the plant's genome. Once the gene that ...