FOOD PRODUCTION AND PRESERVATION

FOOD PRODUCTION AND PRESERVATION

Use of better quality genes in the animal is producing high yields of milk and meat.

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Vitamin B12, widely used as in additive food and in some medicines, is produced in high-yielding cultures of bacteria.

1. Milk producing animal

2. Meat producing animal

3. Goat meat

Production of better quality fruits and vegetable and increasing their shelf lives are also due using biotechnology technique.

1. Better quality fruit

2. Vegetable

HEALTH

Biotechnology techniques are also used for curing diseases and improving health. The diseases for which previously no adequate  treatment was available can now be treated using biotechnology techniques. Identification of root cause of diseases production medicines for fighting against disease curing and correction of genetic defects are the major roles of this technology in developing better health. Various biotechnology products which are used in Pakistan to save lives include.

Insulin:                 useful for diabetics

Vaccines:             used against many infectious diseases

Growth hormone:           useful for stimulating growth

Beta-Endorphin:              a pain killer drug

Interferon:                         anti-viral proteins