Question : Both a wine maker and a molecular biologist who had developed a recombinant vaccine claim to be biotechnologists. Who in your opinion is correct?

Question : Both a wine maker and a molecular biologist who had develop

1.	Question : Both a wine maker and a molecular biologist who had developed a recombinant vaccine claim to be biotechnologists. Who in your opinion is correct?
Answer» SOLUTION :Both are biotechnologists because biotechnology refers to the technological application of natural or genetically MODIFIED organisms to produce products and processes useful to mankind. For EXAMPLE, a wine maker uses live yeast cells to produce wine by fermentation, while a molecular biologist CLONES a gene of interest (say for an antigen for producing vaccine) in a bacterial STRAIN for the production of antigen.