A wine maker and a molecular biologist who has developed a recombinant vaccine

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A wine maker and a molecular biologist who has developed a recombinant vaccine, both claim themselves to be biotechnologist. Who in your opinion is right?

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answered Dec 8, 2017 by mdsamim (213,225 points) 5 10 15
selected Feb 24, 2018 by sarthaks
 
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Both. As biotechnology is a very wide area which deals with techniques of using a ‘natural’ organism (or its parts) as well as genetically modified organism to produce products and processes useful for mankind. A wine maker employs a strain of yeast to produce wine by fermentation (a natural phenomenon), while the molecular biologist has cloned gene for the antigen (that is used as vaccine) in an organism which allows the production of the antigen in large amount.

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