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Highlight five areas where biotechnology has influenced our lives.
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Solution
Biotechnology has influenced our lives in the following ways
- It has provided us with genetically modified crops of better quality and high nutritive value.
- It has made better and safer recombinant vaccines available to human.
- It has helped to develop transgenic animals that can produce human proteins.
- It has enabled the cure of genetic diseases using gene therapy.
- Environmental pollution has also been taken care of with the help of genetically engineered microbes.
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