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Write a short note on Biotechnology - Professional uses.

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The commercial or professional uses of biotechnology are as follows:
i. Biotechnology is used in the field of agriculture in order to improve crop variety and yields by techniques such as genetic modification, hybridization, etc.
ii. Techniques such as artificial insemination and embryo transfer are useful in animal husbandry to improve quality and/or quantity of animal products like milk, wool, meat, etc.
iii. Biotechnology has applications for the welfare of human health in diagnosis and treatment of diseases using vaccines, interferons, antibiotics, etc. Also, gene therapy and therapeutic cloning have application in treating genetic disorders.
iv. Biotechnology is used for the . manufacture of industrial products, environmental management, food processing, green revolution, white revolution and blue revolution.
v. DNA fingerprinting techniques play an import
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