BIOTECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATION SOME WORD 1 Some of the applications of biotechnology in agriculture that you will study in detail are the production of pest resistant plants 2 Insulin from an animal source though caused some patients to develop allergy or other types of reactions to the foreign protein 3 Recombinant DNA technology Polymerase Chain Reaction PCR and Enzyme Linked Immuno sorbent Assay ELISA are some of the techniques that serve the purpose of early diagnosis 4 Some ethical standards are required to evaluate the morality of all human activities that might help or harm living organisms 5 some nations are developing laws to prevent such unauthorised exploitation of their bio resources and traditional knowledge 6 Some strains of Bacillus thuringiensis produce proteins that kill certain insects such as lepidopterans tobacco budworm armyworm coleopterans beetles and dipterans flies mosquitoes 7 In some children ADA deficiency can be cured by bone marrow transplantation in others it can be treated by enzyme replacement therapy in which functional ADA is given to the patient by injection