Biotechnology is essentially the use of technology to make biological processes beneficial to the mankind Advantages (i) Genetic engineering techniques to improve food crops (ii) Molecular biology method to help understand the nature of diseases (iii) Creation of genetically modified foods to feed the ever growing world population (iv) Use of stem cells to treat diseases (v) Creation of processed food (vi) Plants yielding more nutritious and tastier fruits (vii) Production of new types of medicine to fight dangerous disease