Biotechnology, Vitamins, Carbohydrates, Proteins, Lipids, Nucleic Acid Branches of life sciences Notes for RRB Exams – Railway ALP and Group D – General Science

Biotechnology, Vitamins, Carbohydrates, Proteins, Lipids, Nucleic Acid

Branches of life sciences

Zoology :- Study that covers animals and animal life

Genetics :- Study about heredity

Pathology :- About diagnosing, treating, preventing illness,  disease, and injury

Embryology :- The study on how a baby grows in your tummy and other developments

Physiology :- The study of body parts

Biotechnology

 *Biotechnologyis the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make useful products

 *Can also be defined as “any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use”

Bioinformatics

 *An interdisciplinary field which addresses biological problems using computational techniques, and makes the rapid organization as well as analysis of biological data possible

 *May also be referred to as computational biology, and can be defined as, “conceptualizing biology in terms of molecules and then applying informatics techniques to understand and organize the information associated with these molecules, on a large scale

Blue biotechnology :- Marine and aquatic applications of biotechnology

Green biotechnology :- Applied to agricultural processes

Red biotechnology :- Applied to medical processes

White biotechnology :- Also known as industrial biotechnology, is biotechnology applied to industrial processes

Nanotechnology

 *Nanotechnology(“nanotech”) is the manipulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale

 *Nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale