BioTechBiotechnology is technology based on biology, agriculture, food science, and medicine. Modern use of the term refers to genetic engineering as well as cell- and tissue culture technologies.

Bioinformatics is the application of information technology and computer science to the field of molecular biology.

Genetics A discipline of biology, is the science of heredity and variation in living organisms. The fact that living things inherit traits from their parents has been used since prehistoric times to improve crop plants and animals through selective breeding. However, the modern science of genetics, which seeks to understand the process of inheritance, only began with the work of Gregor Mendel in the mid-nineteenth century. Although he did not know the physical basis for heredity, Mendel observed that organisms inherit traits via discrete units of inheritance, which are now called genes.