biotechnicsn.

1852 J. C. Booth & C. Morfit in On Recent Improvem. Chem. Arts Smithsonian Rep. 14 The whole series of chemical arts may be closed by chemical agriculture, or the art of directing and controlling the growth of plants and animals, whence its name Biotechnics.., in order to render their products, in quantity and quality, most suitable to the demands of the arts or the more immediate wants of man.

1925 P. Geddes & J. A. Thomson Biol. 245 The Applications of Biology (Biotechnics). Into the vast fields of Applied Biology it is here beyond our limits to enter. Yet though pure science is here our problem, it is Life-science; and thus it is legitimate to point out that its clearer charting..is helpful.

1993 P. Anderson Harvest of Stars (1994) 268 You might expect biotechnics to advance exponentially while you waited.

2008 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 29 Feb. 1 ‘The erosion of plants' genetic resources is really going fast,’ said Rony Swennen, head of crop biotechnics at the Catholic University of Leuven.

1911 Lancet 19 Feb. 490/2 Bio-technics, or the art of adjusting individuals with their environment, consists in those modifications of the ration, of work, rest, climate, &c., necessary to attain and maintain the optimum chemical and physical equilibrium.

1940 Science 27 Sept. 275/2 The ergasiologist has to prove himself as not merely a good internist and sociologist, but really an expert in biotechnics and in biography in the making and in action.

1961 Jrnl. Humanistic Psychol. Fall 103 Biotechnics is concerned with the rational and humane application of science and technology to improve the human condition.

1965 Nature 4 Dec. 925/1 Tool-technics is but a fragment of bio-technics: man's total equipment for life.

2002 Grey Room Winter 52 His narrative of the history of technology..looked forward to an organically informed biotechnics.