The development of biotechnology

Abstract

The realization of the Human Genome Project (HGP) involved the use of various techniques for mapping and sequencing the genome. In very general terms, genome maps make it possible to identify and isolate individual genes, that is, DNA fragments that code for a certain polypeptide chain. For its part, sequencing consists of determining the order of the nitrogenous bases of DNA. The techniques involved in both processes, although plural and heterogeneous, have their origin in the field of biotechnology. In its development we see how a set of heterogeneous realities are configured as artifacts, operators and reporters, in relation to other circular and radial configurations with which they are co-determined.