In their book about crop biotechnology, Chrispeels and Savada (2003) said that "directly or indirectly, plants provide all of humanity's food."
             Food is an essential part of man's survival. Without it the regular intake of food, animals and most especially humans, will have no source or energy and will eventually die.
             Statistics have shown that the continuous increase in population gives rise to the demand for better food production. Consequently, this leads to more problems of food shortage due to the fact that we have limited resources in this world. Scientists came up with a way to battle this kind of problem: Biotechnology. But are the products of this process, which are more popularly known as genetically modified organisms, better than naturally produced foods?
             Biotechnology is used to refer to any technique, which aims to create or transform products, to formulate improvements on plants or animals, or to cultivate microorganisms through the use of subsisting organisms. It ranges from the earliest practice to the most recent and innovative progressions of biotechnology. Integrating basic disciplines of science such as genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, embryology and cell biology into practical disciplines such as chemical engineering, information technology and robotics, it has become a mixture of different techniques, both traditional and modern. (Asian Development Bank, 2001)
             Although biotechnology is a relatively new term, this idea is not new – the thought started years ago with the popular technique of breeding. According to Chrispeels (2003), author of "Plants, Genes and Crop Biotechnology", breeding is only limited to gene exchange within new species and closely related species. However, because of the improvement in science and technology, this technique has also been enhanced into a more practical and suitable process. This technique allows the isolation of preferre...