Question

What is biotechnology? causing random mutations in bacterial plasmids changing an organism’s genes to make new molecules infecting bacteria with random bacteriophages copying foreign DNA into RNA molecules

Answer 1

Biotechnology is changing an organism’s genes to make new molecules, B.

Answer 2

The right answer is changing an organism’s genes to make new molecules.

Biotechnology is the product of scientific research in areas such as biology, microbiology, biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, molecular biology, computer science. They intervene from engineering to the transformation of matter by biological agents in order to produce "goods and services".

For example, the manufacture of insulin: For a micro-organism such as a cell or a bacterium to produce a molecule such as insulin, it must be genetically modified.