The areas of activity in biotechnology- Human health (with and without rDNA technology) - Human health (with rDNA technology) large molecule therapeutics and monoclonal antibodies produced using rDNA technology, - Human health (without rDNA technology) other therapeutics, artificial substrates, diagnostics and drug delivery technologies, etc., - Veterinary health diagnostics, vaccination and medical treatment of animals, - GM agriculture new varieties of genetically modified (GM) plants, animals and micro-organisms, - Non-GM agriculture new varieties of non-GM plants, animals and micro-organisms developed using biotechnology techniques, bio-pest controls, etc., - Natural resources mining, petroleum/energy extraction , etc., - Environment diagnostics, bioremediation, waste disposal, clean production, etc., - Industrial processing food, cosmetics, fuels, chemicals (e.g. enzymes), plastics, etc., - Bioinformatics- creating genomic/protein databases, modeling biotechnological complex processes, systems biology, - Non-specific applications research tools, - Other. The main (dominant) area of operations in the field of biotechnology: indicated by an area of application of biotechnology techniques, which incurred the greatest costs or generating the most revenue from the sale of biotechnology products.