《生物技术专业英语》(作者苏东海)编写过程中坚持以下原则：有利于学生通过专业知识学英语；涉及生物技术的领域较宽，以便于学生扩大专业词汇量；课文难度略高于科普读物。入选的文章突出了最新成果和发展方向，同时也尽可能反映技术领域的基础知识，使读者在掌握了最新科技突破的同时又巩固了基本知识。对每篇文章都进行详细的注释和说明，并附有练习。我们希望本书能够帮助广大读者更好地掌握生物技术知识，提高阅读科技英语的能力。

《生物技术专业英语》(作者苏东海)分为六章：生物技术基础入门、发酵工程、酶、细胞工程、基因工程、蛋白质工程。每章都包括阅读材料、词汇、练习和参考译文。入选的文章突出了最新成果和发展方向，同时也尽可能反映技术领域的基础知识，使读者在掌握了最新科技突破的同时又巩固了基本知识。为了扩大学生的专业阅读量，书后增加了阅读材料供学生和教师选用。

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Chapter One A Basic Primer on Biotechnology

Chapter Two Fermentation Engineering

Unit 1 Wine Fermentation 11

Unit 2 Fermentation 17

Unit 3 Fungi, Bacteria and Viruses 23

Unit 4 Factors Influencing Optimum Performance of Starter Cultures 32

Chapter Three Enzyme Engineering

Unit 1 Introduction of Enzyme 41

Unit 2 Enzyme classification 49

Unit 3 Industrial use of enzymes 51

Unit 4 Enzymes：digest、absorb and metabolite 60

Chapter Four Cell Engineering

Unit 1 Monoclonal antibodies 67

Unit 2 Establishment of a Primary Culture 82

Unit 3 Stem cells 87

Unit 4 Animal cell culture 94

Chapter Five Gene Engineering

Unit 1 Tomato Engineering 99

Unit 2 Polymerase Chain Reaction 106

Unit 3 Transforming Plants 113

Unit 4 Transgenic Animals 122

Unit 5 DNA Fingerprinting 126

Chapter Six Protein Engineering

Unit 1 Introduction of Protein engineering 131

Unit 2 Proteins 135

Unit 3 Amino Acids 140

Unit 4 Peptides 144

Unit 5 Relationship between folding and amino acid sequence 148

Unit 6 Relationship between protein folding and disease 155

Added Reading Material

1. What is Biotechnology? 160

2. Where Did Biotechnology Begin? 160

3. Overview and Brief History of Biotechnology 162

4. Biotechnology on Agriculture - An Overview 163

5. Biotechnology and industry 165

6. Yeast 166

7. Genetic engineering 168

8. Single-cell protein and gasohol projects 170

9. Introduction to Nucleic Acids and Application to Infectious Disease Detection 171

10. Use of DNA in Identification 172

11. "Mad Cow" Disease 178

12. Future Fuel 182