NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The term biotechnology was used for the first time by Karl Erkey, a Hungarian Engineer, in 1919.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1919, Hungarian agricultural engineer Karl Ereky foresaw a time when biology could be used for turning raw materials into useful products. He coined the term biotechnology to describe that merging of biology and technology. Ereky’s vision has now been realized by thousands of companies and research institutions.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Hungarian Károly Ereky coined the word “biotechnology” in Hungary during 1919 to describe a technology based on converting raw materials into a more useful product. He built a slaughterhouse for a thousand pigs and also a fattening farm with space for 50, 000 pigs, raising over 100, 000 pigs a year.

Detailed explanation-4: -1869 Friedrich Miescher first recognized the “nuclein” inside the nuclei of human leukocytes (white blood cells) (Coley 2016).

Detailed explanation-5: -Fleming’s serendipitous discovery of penicillin changed the course of medicine and earned him a Nobel Prize. In 1928 Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, though he did not realize the full significance of his discovery for at least another decade.