Biotechnology: Latin America’s Big Chance

Abstract

Biotechnology is the branch of science that studies the transference of genes of one organism to another to give the latter the characteristics of the former. Truthfully, it is only the most recent chapter in the long history of the production of food for man. Organized agriculture had its primordial days more than 10,000 years ago when the first human groupings began to fix themselves in determinate areas and to cultivate farms of subsistence. At this moment, man has begun his learning of selection, reproduction, and reaping of seeds, seeking always to improve production.