Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Products of Industrial Biotechnology

Amino Acid:-
Amino acids are biologically important organic compounds composed of amine and carboxylic acid functional groups, along with a side-chain specific to each amino acid. Amino acids play central roles both as building blocks of proteins and as intermediates in metabolism.There are total 20 Esssential amino acid.
For ex,Alanine, Arginine, AsparagineAspartic acidCysteineGlutamic acid, Glutamine, Glycine, Histidine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine, Phenylalanine, Proline, Serine, Threonine, Tryptophan, Tyrosine, Valine.

Vitamins:-
Vitamins are organic compounds which are needed in small quantities to sustain life.
Vitamin is one of a group of organic substances, present in minute amounts in natural foodstuffs, that are essential to normal metabolism; insufficient amounts in the diet may cause deficiency diseases.It is an organic compound required by an organismas a vital nutrient in limited amounts An organic chemical compound  is called a vitamin when it cannot be synthesized in sufficient quantities by an organism, and must be obtained from the diet.

Enzymes
BIopolymer
Bio fuels
Neutraceuticals