• 生物技术（biotechnology)：应用自然科学和工程学的原理，依靠微生物、动物、植物及其制备物反应器将物料进行加工以提供产品服务社会的技术。
• 现代生物技术：是指采用先进的工程科技手段，按照预先的设计改造生物或加工生物原料，为人类生产出所需产品的科学。
• 传统生物技术（1）—— 特点：酿造技术
• 传统生物技术（2)—— 特点：微生物发酵技术
• 现代生物技术——特点：DNA重组
• 生物技术被誉为第三次技术革命

生物技术被世界各国视为一项高新技术，迎接人类所面临的人口、食物、资源和环境等五大危机及经济问题的挑战是至关重要的。

• Biotechnology is the use of living systems and organisms to develop techniques or make products . In the late 20th and early 21st century, biotechnology has expanded to include new sciencs such as genomics and bioinformatics to develop methods for diagnostic and therapy of human disease.

• [ ] 生物技术和生物工程的区别

  Biotechnology is the research and development in the laboratory using genomics and bioinformatics for exploration and achivement of new biomedical methods,and for exploitation and production from any living organisms where high value-added products could be planned.

  By contrast, bioengineering is generally thought of as a related field that more heavily emphasizes higher systems approaches (not necessarily the altering or using of biological materials directly) for interfacing with and utilizing living things. Bioengineering is the application of the principles of engineering and natural sciences to tissues, cells and molecules.