Biotechnology is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms & bioprocessing in engineering, technology, medicine & other fields requiring bioproducts. This book is written to provide an overview of many of the fundamental aspects that underpin all biotechnology and to provide exam-ples of how these principles are put into operation: from the starting substrate or feedstock through to the final product. An essential reading for all undergraduate & postgraduate students of all relevant disciplines and teachers of life sciences, biotechnology, bioinformatics, industrialists, policy-makers as well as researchers in these & allied fields.