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Biotechnology deals with techniques of using live organisms or enzymes from organisms to prodice products useful to humans . Explain briefly the two core techniques that enabled the birth of modern biotechnology

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i. Genetic engineering : It is the technique used to alter the chemistre of genetic material to introduce it into host orgaism and thus change the phenotype of the host
ii. Maintenance of sterile ambience : in chemical engineering processes to enable the growth of only desired cell or microbes,
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