Now, where did biotechnology actually come from? How did it arise? Well, biotechnology came from our understanding of how nucleic acids actually work how they function and how the biological systems in nature use these nucleic acids in the first place. So because we were able to determine the structure of nucleic acids we were able to basically determine the fact that we have the base pairing system and that allowed us to understand how transcription actually takes place. And then we were able to determine the fact that ribosomes use the genetic code to basically translate the sequence of nucleotides on the RNA into the sequence of amino acids on the protein because we were able to determine how these viral agents use nucleic acids to infect cells and then hijack the cell machinery to make many copies of that virus. So because we were able to withstand these nucleic acids that exactly where the field of biotechnology actually came from.