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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

생명공학

Pronunciation / Transliteration: saengmyeong gonghak

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Biotech/ˈbaɪ.oʊ.tɛk/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"생명공학은 새로운 치료법 개발에 기여하고 있습니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The use of living systems and organisms to develop or create products, often involving genetic manipulation.

    "Biotech companies are at the forefront of developing new medical therapies."
  2. 2

    A field of science that applies biological processes to industrial and other practical applications.

    "The biotech sector is rapidly expanding with innovations in agriculture."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

A 20th-century clipping and blending of the words biology and technology, coined to describe the application of engineering and technology to living organisms. It emerged prominently in the late 1970s and 1980s alongside the dawn of genetic engineering and recombinant DNA research.

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