Biotechnology

4. To tame animals in order to make them useful to people.
6. Nutrients the body uses to build and maintain its cells and tissues
7. two or more atoms joined together
11. the system in a country that involves making, buying, and selling goods
13. The process of selecting a few organisms with desired traits to serve as parents of the next generation
16. The manipulation of living organisms or their components to produce useful products.
17. an organism so small that it can not be seen with a regular microscope
18. relating to or characteristic of a microorganism, especially a bacterium causing disease or fermentation.

1. Resistance evolving rapidly in many species of prokaryotes due to overuse of antibiotics, especially in agriculture
2. Branch of biotechnology that alters the genes in biological organisms to achieve a medicinal or agricultural purpose
3. the study of the nature of foods and the changes that occur in them naturally and as a result of handling and processing
5. the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
8. Having to do with morals, values, right and wrong
9. Making a genetically identical copy of DNA or of an organism.
10. The use of living organisms to detoxify and restore polluted and degraded ecosystems
12. inherited; passed on from one's parents
14. relating to or denoting the application of scientific methods and techniques to the investigation of crime
15. a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring