Biotechnology is classified into two types: traditional biotechnology, and modern biotechnology. The first one lets us breed animals, plants, or other organisms with the purpose of enhance the presence of a desirable trait in their offspring. The second one lets us culture microorganisms, such as bacteria to produce drugs massively, as happens with insulin, whose gene is introduced into the prokaryote via plasmids (circular DNA outside of the cell).
These two kinds of biotechnology impact us positively because with these tools, the human being can have access to different resources, such as food and drugs. And they can have a negative impact on our well-being because the first one can harm us in terms of the intensive breeding of livestock can produce a huge amount of greenhouse gases and in terms that modern biotechnology could be used for negative purposes to develop biological weapons.
