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INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION BIOTECHNOLOGY Bio- Technology is a research oriented science, a combination of Biology and Technology. It covers a wide variety of subjects like Genetics, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Immunology, Virology, Chemistry and Engineering and is also concerned with many other subjects?like Health and? Medicine, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Cropping system and Crop Management, Ecology, Cell Biology, Soil science and Soil Conservation, Bio-statistics, Plant Physiology, Seed Technology etc. Bio-Technology is the use of living things, especially cells and bacteria in industrial process. There is a great scope in this field as the demand for biotechnologist are growing in India as well as abroad. There are many applications of biotechnology such as developing various medicines, vaccines and diagnostics, increasing productivity, improving energy production and conservation. Biotechnologys intervention in the area of animal husbandry has improved animal breeding. It also helps to improve the quality of seeds, insecticides and fertilizers. Environmental biotechnology helps for pollution control and waste management.  Although nowadays often associated only with advances in medical therapeutics and production of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology is much more generally defined as ‘the application of microorganisms/cells or components thereof (e.g., enzymes) for the production of useful goods and services’. As such it has a particularly important role to play in the development of sustainable industrial processes. For example, a recent McKinsey report cited in The Economist (2004) estimates that 5% of global chemical sales are derived in part currently from industrial biotechnology and it is projected that this will more than double by 2010. The report suggested that some of these new bio based processes will result from the emerging techniques of recombinant DNA technology, metabolic engineering, functional genomics and proteomics, bi