I. Write AGREE if the statement is correct and DISAGREE if the statement is incorrect.
1. Biotechnology is the use of microorganisms, plants, animal or their parts to make materials such as food, medicines, and chemicals that are useful to man.
2. People were using biotechnology techniques thousands of years before but they did not name such as biotechnology. The term was only coined during the early 1900s when a Hungarian engineer Karolyn Breky describe a technology based on converting raw materials into a more useful product.
3. Biotechnology was used by the Chinese to leave bread and ferment beer, using yeast in 2000 B.C.
4. In 500 B.C.E,the first antibiotic from Moldy soybean curbs (tofu) used to treat boils by the Americans.
5. Powdered chrysanthemums was considered the first insecticide used by the Chinese in 100 C.E.
6. In 1797, the first vaccination was performed by Edward Jenner as he takes pus from a cowpox lesion, insert it into an incision on a boy's arm.
7. A recommendation vaccine against human papilionmavirus (HPV) receives FDA approval. The virus causes genital warts and can cause cervical cancer.
8. In 1983, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, which makes unlimited copies of genes and gene fragments, is conceived. Kary Mullis, who was born in Lenoir, N.C., wins the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery. He became interested in science as a child when he received a chemistry set for Christmas.
9. Sir Alexander Fleming discovers the antibiotic penicillin by chance when he realizes that Penicillium mold kills bacteria in 1928 and he shared the 1945
Nobel Prize in Medicine with Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey.
10. It was in 1990 when the Human Genome Project, an international effort to maps all of the genes in the human genome is launched. Francis Collins,
M.D., PH.D. Director, Human Genome Project published the draft version of the human gemone in 2002.
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