The use of biotechnology has made an impressive impact on agriculture. It helped the field to innovate many new high yielding hybrid seeds. In fact, scientists are expecting that biotechnology can eliminate the lingering food scarcity problems from the world.

Some changes are made in the living organisms to create or modify the agricultural products. The changes are made in tight laboratory conditions which can make significant improvement in the crop yields. The process of biotechnology application in agriculture is known as Agricultural biotechnology. Scientists are altering the whole genetics of plants to generate new crops.

Following are major impact of Biotechnology on the Agriculture:

Food Production:

The introduction of the biotechnology in the agriculture has made a major impact in the food production. Many major crops have become cheaper. Per hectare yield has increased manifold.

Green Revolution:

‘Green Revolution’ is a term which is used to denote the increased output of crop yield in the developing countries. Biotechnology along with some improvements in the basic irrigation facilities are the prime reasons behind this change. The revolution has helped many developing countries like India, Mexico, and Brazil. Scientists had selected few crops and did rigorous scientific tests on them. They extensively used biotechnology to change the very nature of those crops. The result was manifold increase in the food production. Without the green revolution, the world might have seen some severe food problems.

Environment Friendly:

Another major impact of biotechnology on agriculture is in the area of pesticides. Previously synthetic pesticides used to create negative effects on environment. They were also harmful to man. Now, biotechnology has helped to create genetically engineered pesticides which are quite less harmful to environment.

Nutritious Quality of Crops:

Biotechnology has also helped to enhance the nutritious quality of few major crops. It has allowed farmers to use fewer amounts of pesticides and chemicals which has direct bearing on the nutritious elements of the crops. Scientists have also used some genetic engineering to achieve this. For example, the level of beta-carotene in soya bean has been enhanced which resulted in better quality of soya oil.

The field of biotechnology is still seeing major improvement. It can help to abolish any possibility of severe food scarcity from this planet.

There has long been a debate between the students who like math and those liking biology. The debate is often a result of their failure to see the entirely different but complementary nature of the subjects. The students of math can always appreciate biology is absolutely a science, if they show some patience to follow the concepts like protein synthesis that are really the miracles of nature.
‘Protein synthesis’ gives the reader an impression of synthesis of proteins. It really is the synthesis of proteins inside body. But it is more than that because it joins the two things: the production of protein molecules inside body and decoded expression of the coded messages from parents in the offspring. The expression of traits takes place through making of a particular protein that may serve directly in serving a trait or may act as an enzyme to help another biochemical change occur inside body leading ultimately to expression of a new trait.
The example of direct expression of the trait through the protein is insulin. It is a protein and its synthesis is controlled by a particular gene. It controls the level of sugar in the blood and thus keeps a healthy man from being diabetic. If there is a fault in the gene, insulin is not formed and the individual becomes diabetic.
The examples of the other indirect function of proteins are many. The human body is a complex collection of numerous biochemical reactions where a number of genes may be expressing them in a highly coordinated way through an advanced function of body.
How this protein synthesis takes place is an interesting process in which a genetic code embedded in the long strands of DNA in the chromosomes is translated into a unique protein.
A protein is made of amino acids—the units of proteins. There are a score of types of amino acids found in human body that in varying sequence and numbers join to make molecules of unique proteins. In what number and sequence will they join is decided by the sequence and frequency of the nucleotides in a gene. The DNA is a set of two spiral strands each coming from either of the parents. Part of one strand may be dominant over the other strand that came from your ma or pa and the result is some traits are hidden in you but these can be expressed in your children! The same is the case with the traits that you may owe from your paternal or maternal grandparents.