Biotechnology is the knowledge or ability to bring academic life or from organisms used or modified and simplified to benefit, we know the use of biotechnology for a long time. To make fish sauce soy sauce fermentation, fermented foods, spirits are biotechnology, traditional as well as improved seeds and plants. The animals have a greater productivity. Better quality or herbs used treatment of health it is with traditional biotechnology.
However, in the present, when it comes to biotechnology, we usually mean the modern technology that has many scientific disciplines are combined, biology, chemistry, biochemistry, physics and engineering, which until may, is the leading interdisciplinary basic knowledge about various aspects of living organisms to use it wisely.