DIY Biology Quiz

Do-it-yourself biology is a biotechnological social movement in which individuals, communities, and small organizations study biology and life science using the same methods as traditional research institutions. It is primarily undertaken by individuals with limited research training from academia or corporations, who then mentor and oversee other DIY biologists with little or no formal training.

Motivations for engaging in do-it-yourself biology include pursuing it as a hobby, for community learning and open-science innovation, or for profit, to start a business.

The alternative terms associated with the do-it-yourself biology community are biohacking, wetware hacking, and biopunk. Biohacking and wetware hacking emphasize the connection to hacker culture and the hacker ethic, while biopunk emphasizes the techno-progressive, political, and artistic elements of the movement.

<p>The term 'biohacking' has been known as early as 1988, and it entered the San Francisco programmer and maker communities as early as 2005, through simple demonstrations of basic experiments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>DIYbio experiments gained additional momentum as they became the focus of SuperHappyDevHouse hackers.</p> Signup and view all the answers