THE EVOLUTION OF THE TERM "BIOTECHNOLOGY" DEFINITION
THE EVOLUTION OF THE TERM "BIOTECHNOLOGY" DEFINITION

Summary/Abstract: In the field of innovative technologies, such as "biotechnology" the identification of basic terms and the study of their definitions are important, since this is a relatively new field of knowledge, the terminology of which is at the stage of formation. The article is devoted to the evolution of the definition of the term "biotechnology". The importance of the study of this term definition is caused by the urgent need for analysis, review and systematization of amount of new definitions that has appeared over the past forty-fifty years in the field of biotechnology. Recently there has been growing concern about the misuse of the word “biotechnology” as a general term covering several different categories. The author shows the history of the term origin, reveals the main stages of development of its definition. Analyzing the definition of the term "biotechnology" in the English language, the author points to the lack of a well-defined definition of this term, which confirms the temporal definition of concepts in any science that can be transformed depending on the development of the latter.

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