Over the years there have been a rising need of creative innovations to solve industrial, agricultural and medical problems. In an approach to solve these problems, scientists and engineers made a collective effort to create an equilibrium between science and technology. A product of this effort is biotechnology, which is simply defined as process of creating things with the use of life. Biotechnology involves manufacturing of useful materials via biological process, which apparently requires micro-organisms.

The beauty of biotechnology lies on it’s broad range of application, which is being classified based on how they are being used. Biotech in short, is classified as white, green and red biotechnology.

White Biotechnology

This class of biotechnology is commonly known as industrial biotechnology. White biotechnology is centered on manufacturing process, and this is a field where chemical and biochemical engineers function. This phase involves the design of biochemical process and it also requires the understanding of how to leverage enzymes for optimization. A typical example is the use of yeast in the production of alcohol.

Green Biotechnology

This class focuses on bolstering agricultural sector. Green biotechnology creates room for effective and efficient means of growing crops which are later processed into edible substances.

Red Biotechnology

Red biotech is a class of biotechnology that focuses on medical issues.Hence, it could be dubbed as medical technology. The beauty of this class of biotechnology is that it focuses on the means of creating drugs to cure diseases and also aims at genetic manipulation of organisms for their betterment.