Biotechnology is a discipline combining biology and technology. For thousand of years it has had wide and constantly increasing application in our daily lives. The production of citric acid is considered as a c1assical example of fermentation. The last 30 year have seen the introduction of antibiotic fermentation, and its controls in the theoretical and technological procedures are fully discussed.
More recently, further developments in the field of biomass and food production have given a new incentive. From the biological and economic point of view the possibility of producing new biological products is considerable. Such product will have all the advantages of natural substances as well as the improvements offered by industrial production. The most recent genetic and computer techniques can be applied. Combining experience from nature and technology, biotechnology attempts to synthesize its own novel products.
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