Biotechnology is the fusion of biology and technology that can be applied to advance medicine, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and animal science in Ecuador. Some key applications include: 1. Advancing medicine through improved testing and new therapies like gene therapy and stem cell therapy. 2. Growing agriculture by developing genetically modified crops with increased yields, nutritional value, and pest resistance. 3. Progressing the pharmaceutical field by developing more effective and less toxic drugs through synthetic biology and fast disease diagnostics using techniques like PCR. 4. Increasing animal growth rates and productivity while reducing environmental impacts through techniques like artificial insemination and embryo transfer in livestock.

1. BIOTECHNOLOGY:
The Key To
Ecuador’s
Development
By Adriana Cabrera
12th Grade
Physics-Mathematics
2012-2013

2. Biotechnology is the fusion of Biology and
Technology
The application of Biotechnological techniques to
fusion research and development

3. Biotechnology’s application in Ecuador is essential:
1. Advacement of medicine in testing and in treatment
2. Growth of agriculture guarantees food security
3. Progress of the pharmaceutical field improves human health
4. Improvement of the productivity of animals while reducing the
enviromental impact from the livestock sector

4. Medicine: In testing

5. Medicine: In treatment
Has developed several therapies which can treat inherited
human diseases involving defective genes and fight agains
incurable diseases.
Therapies:
 Gene Therapy
Enzyme Replacement Therapy
Stem cells therapy

6. Agriculture: Genetically modified products
Example:
Main
characteristics:
1. Pink banana
(very exotic)
2. Very tasty
3. Presence of
seeds in its
fruit
4. Small size
Musa velutina (pink banana
banana)

7. This pink banana can be genetically modified with
Biotechnology
These seeds can
be eliminated =
At the same
time, improving
its:
Its size can be
nutritional
increased like the
quality
size of the
Resistance to
common yellow
plant pests like:
banana
bacteria, virus,
fungi,
nematodes and
other pathogens

8. Agriculture: Massive production
Benefits:
 It needs only small explants
to produce large quantities
of material in relatively
short time
 Possibily of multiplication
during all the year
 Low space requirements
 Obtaining pathogen- free
plants

9. Biotechnology Pharmaceutical Field:

10. Biotechnology Pharmaceutical Field: Biotech drugs can help
or cure human diseases.
Moreover, a Biotech company is developing a less toxic
chemotherapy drugs. It uses synthetic biology to come up
with new DNA based drugs trigger cells to produce powerfull
cancer killing chemicals.

11. Biotechnology Pharmaceutical Field: Biotechnology chemical
reactive can be used for fast diagnosis of important human
diseases.
Pharyngitis and Rheumatic Heart Disease Diagnosis:
• The conventional methods are expensive, time consuming
and suffer one or more limitations.
 But with today’s PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) it takes
only 80 minutes to complete overall analysis using mga genes
as a specific genetic marker.

12. Animal Biotechnology: increase growth rate
Techniques:
 Artificial Insimination (AI)
 Embryo Transfer (ET)
Annually more than:
 100 million AI are performed in cattle
 40 million in pigs
 3.3 million in sheep
 0.5 million in goats

13. Animal Biotechnology: Enhance Nutrition and Public Health
Poultry and Livestock resistant to organims:
 E. coli
 Streptococcus
 Clostridium
 Campylobacter
Diseases:
 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or also known as “mad
cow”

14. Animal Biotechnology: Reduce environmental impact from
the livestock sector

15. For these reasons:
•The government should encourage the creation of laboratories in
our country
•Ecuadorian universities should provide this career as a
synonym of development
Instead of promoting the same
traditional careers:
1. Law
2. Business Administration
3. Education
4. Medicine
5. Journalism