Exercise 11. Agree or disagree with the following statements.
1. Biotechnology has been associated with the medical and pharmaceuti-
cal sectors. 2. The specific features of the bioproducts are mostly invisible to
people. 3. There are three areas within biotechnology: red, green and white.
4. These areas have the same scientific and technological basis. 5. The main
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biotechnical techniques are DNA/RNA, proteins, cell engineering, process-
ing, bioinformatics, nanobiotechnology.
KEY VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
Exercise 12. Match the adjectives in column A with the nouns in column B to
form meaningful phrases and then identify them at the sentence level in the
text. It will help you understand the text in detail.
A
1) white
2) pharmaceutical
3) specific
4) biological
5) biogradable
6) ubiquitous
7) perceptible
8) vital
9) fine
10) crude
B
a) oil
b) features
c) science
d) biotechnology
e) sector
f) applications
g) chemicals
h) plastics
i) role
j) characteristics
Exercise 13. Decide which of the verbs on the left collocate with the nouns on the
right and then identify the word combinations at the sentence level in the text.
It will help you understand the text precisely.
1) to alter
2) to derive from
3) to associate with
4) to exist on
5) to be used in
6) to comprise
7) to recognize
8) to play
9) to address
10) to grow
a) evolution
b) detergents
c) needs
d) variety
e) materials
f) knowledge
g) market
h) food
i) role
j) bioproducts
Exercise 14. Try to enrich your vocabulary:
a) find words in the text which have the same meanings as the following words:
use, field, broad, to embrace, main, various, aim, foundation, major,
method, gadget;
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