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Discuss all factors arising from the use of biotechnology such as what biotechnology actual is, cloning, stem cell technology etc.  

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Biotechnology Essay This essay will discuss all factors arising from the use of biotechnology such as what biotechnology actual is, cloning, stem cell technology etc. Human beings have being using plants to make different products for thousands of years. Plant biotechnology is helping today to provide people with more and better food and holds a great promise for the future. There are many differences between traditional livestock breeding and the modern biotechnology approach. Traditional breeding is considered as natural, whereas genetic modification is sometimes perceived as interfering with nature to consumers. Selective breeding has been practised for many centuries as a pose to the modern way of choosing individual, or small numbers of selected genes which are passed down on to the next generation of animals, allowing precise selection of characteristics. This method removes any possibility for errors such as undesirable genes being inherited together with desirable ones, which was...

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