本教材分为六章：生物技术基础入门、发酵工程、酶、细胞工程、基因工程、蛋白质工程。每章都包括阅读材料、词汇、练习和参考译文。入选的文章突出了最新成果和发展方向，同时也尽可能反映技术领域的基础知识，使读者在掌握了最新科技突破的同时又巩固了基本知识。为了扩大学生的专业阅读量，书后增加了阅读材料供学生和教师选用。
本书可作为生物技术、食品、生物制药等专业高职高专学生和应用型本科学生的专业英语教材或参考书。

Chapter One A Basic Primer on Biotechnology
Chapter Two Fermentation Engineering
Unit 1 Wine Fermentation
Unit 2 Fermentation
Unit 3 Fungi, Bacteria and Viruses
Unit 4 Factors Influencing Optimum Performance of Starter Cultures
Chapter Three Enzyme Engineering
Unit 1 Introduction of Enzyme
Unit 2 Enzyme classification
Unit 3 Industrial use of enzymes
Unit 4 Enzymes：digest、absorb and metabolite
Chapter Four Cell Engineering
Unit 1 Monoclonal antibodies
Unit 2 Establishment of a Primary Culture
Unit 3 Stem cells
Unit 4 Animal cell culture
Chapter Five Gene Engineering
Unit 1 Tomato Engineering
Unit 2 Polymerase Chain Reaction
Unit 3 Transforming Plants
Unit 4 Transgenic Animals
Unit 5 DNA Fingerprinting
Chapter Six Protein Engineering
Unit 1 Introduction of Protein engineering
Unit 2 Proteins
Unit 3 Amino Acids
Unit 4 Peptides
Unit 5 Relationship between folding and amino acid sequence
Unit 6 Relationship between protein folding and disease
Added Reading Material
1.What is Biotechnology?
2.Where Did Biotechnology Begin?
3.Overview and Brief History of Biotechnology
4.Biotechnology on Agriculture-An Overview
5.Biotechnology and industry
6.Yeast
7.Genetic engineering
8.Single-cell protein and gasohol projects
9.Introduction to Nucleic Acids and Application to Infectious Disease Detection
10.Use of DNA in Identification
11."Mad Cow" Disease
12.Future Fuel
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