Publisher Summary Biotechnology is any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, and derivatives to make or modify products and processes for specific use. Humans have been manipulating genetic material for centuries. This chapter provides an overview of environmental biotechnology. An assessment is only as good as the assumptions and information from which it is drawn. Good science must underpin the environmental decisions. One must enlist the expertise of engineers, microbiologists, botanists, zoologists, geneticists, medical researchers, geologists, geographers, land use planners, hydrologists, meteorologists, computational experts, systems biologists, and ecologists to characterize the risks and opportunities of environmental biotechnology. The only way to characterize biological systems is by simultaneously addressing chemical reactions, motion, and biological processes. Mass and energy exchanges are constantly taking place within and between cells, and at every scale of an ecosystem or a human population. Thus, biochemodynamics addresses energy and matter as they move, change, and cycle through organisms. A single chemical or organism undergoes the process from its release to its environmental fate.
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Vallero, D. A. (2010). CHAPTER 1 - Environmental Biotechnology: An Overview. In D. A. B. T.-E. B. Vallero (Ed.) (pp. 1–44). San Diego: Academic Press. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123750891100017
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