The technique of using live organisms or derived enzymes to produce products and processes useful to humans is known as:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Biotechnology
Option (2) Biotechnology — Correct. Of the options, only biotechnology is about using living organisms or their enzymes to make useful products and processes; NCERT counts even curd, bread and wine making as a form of it.
NCERT Extract:
Processes of Recombinant DNA Technology – “Biotechnology deals with techniques of using live organisms or enzymes from organisms to produce products and processes useful to humans. In this sense, making curd, bread or wine, which are all microbe-mediated processes, could also be thought as a form of biotechnology.”