The EFB has given a definition of biotechnology that encompasses both traditional view and modern molecular biotechnology. The definition given by EFB is as follows

Options

A. The use of bio-resources by multinational companies and other organisation without proper authorization from the countries and people concerned without compensatory payment
B. The integration of natural science and organisms, cells parts thereof, and molecular analogues for products and services
C. Industrial scale production of biopharmaceuticals and biologicals using genetically modified microbes, fungi, plants and animals
D. Techniques to alter the chemistry of genetic material (DNA and RNA), to introduce these into host organisms and thus change the phenotype of the host organism

Answer

B

Explanation

The EFB had given a definition of biotechnology that encompasses both traditional view and modern molecular biotechnology. The definition given by EFB is as follows 'The integration of natural science and organsism, cells, parts thereof, and molecular analogues for products and services