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noun

biotechnology

CEFR B2

the branch of molecular biology that studies the use of microorganisms to perform specific industrial processes

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Six example sentences with biotechnology, each labelled with its topic.

  • Two graduates founded a biotechnology firm that brews leather in tanks instead of raising a single animal.

    Startups

  • Investors treat biotechnology like weather, since one approval can double a portfolio and one refusal can erase it.

    Finance

  • Modern insulin comes from engineered yeast, a biotechnology triumph that freed supply from any animal source at all.

    Medicine

  • A 1980 Supreme Court ruling let biotechnology firms patent a living bacterium, and the industry's funding changed overnight.

    Law

  • Biotechnology labs are tuning microbes to digest plastic, though the fastest strain still needs weeks to eat a bottle.

    Environment

  • Most hard cheese now relies on biotechnology, since the enzyme that sets the curd comes from engineered microbes rather than calves.

    Cooking

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