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We often see terms like “bio” and “biotech” in the newspapers and on TV today. This is obviously an abbreviation for “biotechnology ,” a compound of bio, meaning “life” or “organism,” and “technology.”
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Kim, SK. (2019). What Is Marine Biotechnology?. In: Essentials of Marine Biotechnology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20944-5_1
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