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The Mountain Lakes High School, located in Mountain Lakes, NJ has just opened a new Academy for Biotechnology.  The science classroom space utilizes Sheldon's Axis Lab Table, oak wood laboratory casework, epoxy resin counter tops and laboratory fume hoods. What is Biotechnology? According to the online version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary, "the manipulation (as through genetic engineering) of living organisms or their components to produce useful usually commercial products (such as pest resistant crops, new bacterial strains, or novel pharmaceuticals); also: any of various applications of biological science used in such manipulation".1