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Both a wine maker and a molecular biologist who had developed a recombinant vaccine claim to be biotechnologists. Who in your opinion is correct?
A wine maker and a molecular biologist who has developed a recombinant vaccine, both claim themselves to be biotechnologist. Who in your opinion is right?
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Both. As biotechnology is a very wide area that deals with techniques of using a ‘natural’ organism (or its parts) as well as genetically modified organisms to produce products and processes useful for mankind. A winemaker employs a strain of yeast to produce wine by fermentation (a natural phenomenon), while the molecular biologist has cloned the gene for the antigen (that is used as a vaccine) in an organism, which allows the production of the antigen in large amounts.
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