11.   According to a Defense Department report last year, Iran has built up its civilian biotechnology industries to cloak possible military use of materials and expertise.

12.   Across the biotechnology industry, companies are beginning to increase lung cancer research, partly in anticipation of a boom in early detection.

13.   But advocates for patients, as well as the biotechnology industry, are strongly in support of therapeutic cloning, and therefore oppose the Brownback legislation.

14.   But many nations, realizing the potential value of such genetic resources to the biotechnology industry, are demanding pay for such bioprospecting.

15.   But members of the biotechnology industry were also on hand, dismissing what they termed the emotional ploys of their opponents.

16.   But this extra nondisclosure agreement, drawn up by the agricultural biotechnology industry, appears to be unusual, and some environmentalists said it was too restrictive.

17.   Charles Margulis, a member of Greenpeace, said the biotechnology industry assures the public that genetic engineering is no different from selective breeding.

18.   Companies that are developing cancer drugs, particularly the younger, start-up members of the biotechnology industry, are under pressure to keep the price of their stock up.

19.   Critics of the biotechnology industry immediately called for tighter regulation of the hundreds of genetically modified crops currently being readied for the market.

20.   Confronting a broad new attack on its moral and financial underpinnings, the biotechnology industry yesterday began battling a religious movement seeking to ban patents on any living thing.