How Has Biology Helped Agriculture?
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How Has Biology Helped Agriculture Biology has helped improve many things in agriculture, it has meant that farmers have had bigger yields and this has meant more money available to be made in farming. Many techniques used in biology have helped agriculture; these have included cloning, limiting factors in photosynthesis, G.M foods, pesticides, fertilisers, genetic engineering, selective breeding and natural pesticides. Cloning in agriculture has meant that farmers have been able to have an animal or plant that is exactly what they want and then clone it. Which means extra money for the farmer because they could clone a sheep that has loads of wool and lots of meat on it. This would never have been possible if it wasn't for the advancements in biology in developing a technique to get exact copies of what they want. However this also means that one disease that they're not resistant to can...


