Biotechnology vs Null - What's the difference?
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The use of living organisms (especially microorganisms) in industrial, agricultural, medical and other technological applications.
* 1988 , New Zealand Department of Trade and Industry, Biotechnology in New Zealand—A Business Perspective ,
* 2003 , Mabju Sharma, Renu Swarup, The Way Ahead - The New Technology in an Old Society'', T. K. Ghose, P. Ghosh (editors), ''Biotechnology in India I ,
* 2009 , Sean D. Sutton, Introduction'', Sean D. Sutton (editor), ''Biotechnology: Our Future as Human Beings and Citizens ,
The application of the principles and practices of engineering and technology to the life sciences.
* 2002', Charles Spillane, Yvonne Pinto, ''1: Biosafety in Agrcultural '''Biotechnology''': Balancing Social and Environmental Impacts'', Timothy M. Swanson (editor), ''The Economics of Managing '''Biotechnologies ,
* 2008', Yutaka Tanaka, ''Attitude toward Bioethics and Acceptance of '''Biotechnology''''', William G. Flynne (editor), '''''Biotechnology and Bioengineering ,
* 2008', Wendy Harcourt, ''Chapter 1: Heading Blithely Down the Garden Path?: Some Entry Points into Current Debates on Women and '''Biotechnologies''''', Francesca Molfino, Flavia Zucco (editors), ''Women in '''Biotechnology : Creating Interfaces ,
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between biotechnology and null
is that biotechnology is the use of living organisms (especially microorganisms) in industrial, agricultural, medical and other technological applications while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.biotechnology
English
(wikipedia biotechnology)Noun
(en-noun)page 8,
- Japan's strength lies in more traditional biotechnology such as fermentation.
page 5,
- The developments in biotechnology', particularly with the basic understanding of genetics, immunology, biochemistry, biochemical engineering and molecular biology, have paved the way for major ' biotechnology products and processes and have provided tools to the manufacturing and service industry.
page 6,
- Moreover, Arnhart points out that both the proponents and critics of biotechnology are compelled to appeal to our natural moral sense.
page 4,
- Agricultural biotechnology' comprises a collection of scientific techniques, including genetic engineering, that are used to modify and improve plants, animals and microorganisms for human profit. Agricultural ' biotechnologies are not a substitute for conventional plant and animal breeding, but can be a powerful complement to improving the efficiency and sustainability of agricultural production.
page 175,
- The result of study 3 suggests that the factor of bioethics is important not only for the acceptance of biotechnologies' themselves, such as gene recombination technology and clone technology, but also the acceptance of foods and products which are produced by the use of ' biotechnologies .
page 38,
- It therefore follows that we need to ensure that the conception, development, dissemination and application of biotechnologies are held to ethical democratic standars which ensure gender equality.
Derived terms
* biotech (qualifier) * biotechnologicalSee also
* bioengineering * genetic engineeringnull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.