LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

QUARTER: 4th/ WEEK: 1

Name: ________________________________________ Score: _______________

Grade & Section: ____________________________ Subject: BIOTECHNOLOGY

Name of Teacher: ______________________________ Date: ________________

I. Title: The Role of Biotechnology and How it Change our Lives

II. Type of Activity: Concept notes with formative activities

LAS for summative assessment ( Written Work Performance Task)

III. MELC: Explain different applications of biotechnology on how it works in

promoting quality of living, food preservation and promotion of health.

IV. Learning Objective/s:

 Discuss how biotechnology helps in the promotion of quality living,
food, health, and its corresponding benefits to society.
 Recognize the significant applications of biotechnology that benefited
the society.

V. Reference/s:

Print Material/s:
Herren, R. V. (2004). Introduction to Biotechnology. Unit 2105- 2106
Ortigas Avenue, Pasig City, MG Reprographics, pp. 229- 304.

Online Resource/s:
Role of Biotechnology. Retrieved at https://mangalmay.org/blog/role-of-
biotechnology-in-modern-technology/#:~:text=Biotechnology
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%20resistance%20in%20crops.&text=Beer%2C%20alcohol
%20and%20wine%20industry,microbes%20for%20their
%20manufacturing%20processes on March 31, 2021
Importance of Biotechnology to Human Health Welfare Retrieved at
https://byjus.com/biology/why-is-biotechnology-important-to-
humans/ on March 31, 2021.

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VI. Concept Notes

The Role of Biotechnology and How it Change our Lives

Biotechnology is nothing but the technology that uses biology to improve the
quality of lives of people. It has wide applications and essential part of modern
technology. However, biotechnology is not just a single technology. It is, in fact, a
group of technologies that work with living cells and molecules and help find new
solutions to improve the quality of our lives. Though biotechnology has been used
since ages, the recent developments in molecular biology, genetic engineering has
immensely increased its potential.
Modern biotechnology has two streams, namely: genetic biotechnology and
non-genetic biotechnology. Genetic biotechnology uses genetic engineering to
modify and improve the DNA processes that have a lot of benefits for humans. The
Non-genetic biotechnology seeks to improve and modify the strains of the crop,
microbial fermentation, tissue culture etc. without making changes to the DNA or
genes. Biotechnology applications are used in different fields like food, medicine,
environment etc.
Biotechnology in Agriculture

The world population is expected to be about 8.7 billion by 2050. Though

population growth is immense, the land surface of our world remains same. The
ideal farming land has been extensively used and lost its prime utility. This, in turn,
has the potential to create food shortage in coming years. Biotechnology helps not
only to improve the yield of crops but also produce superior crops with nutritional
value required to meet the demand. It helps eradicate malnutrition in developing
countries. Biotechnology works to improve make growing environments flexible,
reduce dependency on chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation and build
resistance in crops.

Figure 1: Biotechnology in Food Preservation

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Biotechnology in Medicine

Biotechnology is widely used in the development of several innovative

techniques for diagnosing, treating, and preventing diseases. It helps in providing
effective treatments and prevention measures for different disease by its inventions
of novel drugs and recombinant vaccines. Biotechnology has been playing a
dynamic role in improving the challenges regarding human health and their welfare.
There are many more research and investigation processes carried out for improving
the future technologies. Biotechnology has played a significant role in improving
human health by producing enriched nutrients food products such as Golden Rice,
potato, maize, groundnuts, and soybean etc.

Figure 2: Biotechnology in Health Promotion

Biotechnology is a broad range of technologies that employ living organisms

or parts of them to make diverse products. For example, drugs and therapeutics,
nutritional compounds, environmentally friendly chemicals and materials, biofuels,
and novel functional materials can be produced through biotechnology. More
broadly, medical biotechnology, agricultural biotechnology and industrial
biotechnology will all play increasingly important roles in our everyday life.
Biotechnology in Environment

Biotechnology can also be employed to degrade toxic or harmful chemicals

and agents to solve environmental problems. The potential benefits include solving
world food shortages, and improvements in medicine, agriculture, and veterinary
sciences. We can confidently expect biotechnological solutions to many essential
industrial processes that currently produce toxic effluents. An increasing role for
biotechnology in environmental management will undoubtedly follow. Because the
prospect of serious biohazards appears to be receding, it does not mean that strict
regulation of the new technology should be relaxed. Provided such vigilance is
maintained, mankind can look forward to a wide range of exciting prospects that
stem from biotechnology.

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 The application biotechnology is quite vast, and the advantages are immense
and virtually every industry uses biotechnology directly or indirectly. The growth of
biotechnology has been happening at a scorching pace in recent times and a lot
more is expected in near future. It finds application in diagnostics, textiles,
pharmaceuticals, aquaculture, household products, forestry, forensics,
environmental clean-up, food processing and chemicals enabling them to make new
and better products. It helps them improve the speed and efficiency of production. It
also helps in reducing pollution and waste generation.
YOU CAN DO THIS!
Task 1. Check your Concepts. Read and analyze the questions carefully. Choose
the letter of the correct answer.
1. One of modern biotechnology streams that uses genetic engineering to
modify and improve the DNA processes that have a lot of benefits for
humans.

a. Non-genetic Engineering c. Non- genetic Biotechnology

b. Genetic Engineering d. Genetic Biotechnology

2. The _______________________ seeks to improve and modify the strains of

the crop, microbial fermentation, tissue culture.

a. Non- genetic Engineering c. Non- genetic Biotechnology

b. Genetic Engineering d. Genetic Biotechnology

3. Functional materials can be produced through biotechnology, except:

a. Thermal Energy c. Environment friendly

chemicals
b. Biofuels d. Drugs and Therapeutics

4. Which of the following biotechnology product has played a significant role in

improving human life?

a. Food preservation c. Household products

b. Pharmaceuticals d. All of the above

5. What are the two streams of modern biotechnology?

I. Genetic Biotechnology
II. Genetic Engineering
III. Non- genetic Biotechnology
IV. Non- genetic Engineering

a. I & II c. II & I
b. I & III d. IV & II
Task 2. Check your Understanding. Read and understand the statements
comprehensively. Write True of the statement is correct or False if the statement is
incorrect.

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 1. Biotechnology has been playing a dynamic role in improving the challenges
regarding human health and their welfare.
2. Biotechnology decreases crop yields.
3. Non- genetic biotechnology uses genetic engineering to modify and improve
the DNA processes.
4. Biotechnology has been used for several innovative techniques such as
diagnosing, treating, and preventing diseases.
5. Genetic biotechnology seeks to improve and modify the strains of the crop,
microbial fermentation, tissue culture.
Task 3. Word Search. Below is a word hunt, find the word/s using the box as your
guide to locate the concept. These word/s may be written vertically, horizontally,
diagonally, forwards, and backwards. Draw a line striking through the word/s.
V G C F E S B I O T E C H N O L O G Y N U W Y D
M U Y G O B J R S H X M K Y W K N G U M Q N L M
G A D Z E K N U H Z I Q T P J U G U A G Z H D Z
K A G M B N F D X B L J G T E U J K R Q W Q V F
Z X W X N F E I U J U E F T I I D F Y G C D H A
X E L C Z A Y T W W S I H T L A E H J O P F N K
N F U Q Z F N D I R G M V L Z P H P L Z M A S M
B G D X J J O N V C T T F D Z I G Z S E A D Y W
Q D R H N M N M N Y B H K V W L J V K X H R L X
Q X A I O N G P K R S I Y K Q T U J X W R K M C
Y U G G I S E X Y O A W O P V G S B Y X Y F N X
B G V W T G N Y Z U Y W L T E I J I Q L U Z P U
J Y X U A R E S W J K W A P E L E C C L B P S W
B A X N V S T J W F U G H G B C I O F Q T O D V
G N E E R H I G S Q D N Z U M S H J T Q K H O Y
J Y O V E X C B R M A P S B X O D N O P M K W D
M J O C S V N Q Z D B K E P N X S J O B I R P U
C S O N E E X D F V P K F V I V T J N L F I T L
D W J F R D Y D O F K T A R A Q W X X C O O G A
D K J X P G Y G O W H M D R R Y G V N B V G H O
O H T H D W E X R L D A X N H R J R X F D W Y F
N B Z U O K A W M T Q L G Y Q W H X P R Z X N E
J V U P O V F A M F O S C Y S F N J N U Q E I B
O F Y O F V N H B U H P A N G T G U H C L U L U

Food Preservation Health Genetic Biotechnology

Biotechnology Nongenetic

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 YOU CAN DO MORE!
Task 4. Let’s Analyze. Unscramble the following set of letters to identify the word/s.
Write your answer on the space provided.

1. Answer: _________________________________
C N E G E T I H L Y C N T O O B O G I

2. Answer: ___________________________________
E N N O I C G E N T - N O E I H C G O L T O B Y

3. Answer: ___________________________________
H A A I U C M T A R S E L C P

4. Answer: ___________________________________
D E L N O G C I R E

5. Answer: ___________________________________
O O N C I Y L O E B T H G

Task 5. Check Your Understanding. Complete the Venn diagram below to

compare and contrast genetic biotechnology and non-genetic biotechnology, then fill
in the middle section the characteristics that are shared concept.

Genetic Non- genetic Biotechnology

Biotechnolo

Task 6. Let’s Understand. Indicate whether the sentence or statement is True or

False. If false, underline the word/s that makes the sentence incorrect, change the
identified word or phrase to make the statement true.
1. The potential benefits of biotechnology include solving food shortages, and
improvements in medicine and many other aspects of society.

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 2. Modern biotechnology has two streams namely genetic engineering and Non-
genetic biotechnology.

3. Early practices in farming that utilized selective breeding is not considered as

biotechnology.

4. Some environmental applications of biotechnology include uses microbes to

clean up an oil spill or fungal or algae outbreak.

5. Perhaps the most crucial application of biotechnology of its era was the
production of antibiotics to fight infection.

CHALLENGE YOURSELF!
Task 7. Let’s Create. Create a poster slogan about biotechnology with the theme,
“Biotechnology: The Fuel of Tomorrow”.

Task 8. Sci Challenge. Make a five (5) stanza free verse poem about the
importance of biotechnology in promotion of quality living and why do we need it.

Task 9. Let’s Analyze. Read the question below. Answer the question briefly and
accurately.
1. Identify at least five (5) benefits of biotechnology in the society?

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 LEVEL UP!
Task 10. On the Spot. Read the question below. Answer the question briefly and
accurately.

1. How has biotechnology helped the world?

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2. How will biotechnology affect our future?
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3. What is the importance of biotechnology to the society?
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Task 11. Critical Thinking. Given the chance to develop a product based on the
concepts of biotechnology. What would that be and why? Elaborate your answer.

Task 12. Spotlight. From the word, BIOTECHNOLOGY, create a mnemonic of the
products produced from the word that benefits the society.