Many virulent animal diseases, especially in livestock, are very contagious and can be economically devastating, especially in developing tropical countries. Livestock are susceptible to many types of dysentery and diseases such as African horse sickness, bovine leukosis, bovine infectious rhinotracheitis, brucellosis, and Rift Valley fever, to name just a few. Developing countries often have no […]
Essay on Animal Health Care and Biotechnology
Essay on Modern Biotechnology and Crop Breeding
In this article we will discuss about the use of modern methods of crop breeding. Conventional breeding, especially of crops, livestock and fish, focuses principally on increased productivity, increased resistance to diseases and pests, and enhanced quality with respect to nutrition and food processing. Advances in cellular genetics and cell biology methods in the 1960s […]
Essay on Biotechnology and Environment
Our lives may, quite literally, be changed. Environmental biotechnology deals with far less apparently dramatic topics and, though their importance, albeit different, may be every bit as great, their direct relevance is far less readily appreciated by the bulk of the population. Cleaning up contamination and dealing rationally with wastes is, of course, in everybody’s […]