Biotechnology in Veterinary Medicine

In various areas of medicine biotechnology is consider as already established approach, but to revolutionize veterinary
practice with the potential in veterinary medicine field it has only begun to emerge. For animal breeding and veterinary medicine
it has proposed new dimensions with the continuous growth of modern biotechnology. To discard any possible genetic disorder i t
ultimately permits to consequently and detect through genome analysis of important breeding species. It can also detect more
reliably and easily the infectious diseases. With improved productivity and health it opens the possibility to generate animals with
the production of transgenic livestock and it introduced a less time taking program of breeding.

THE INFLUENCE OF ACADEMIC CULTURE AND TASK COMMITMENT TOWARD LECTURERS’ INNOVATIVENESS

This study aims to investigate the academic culture and task commitment toward lecturers’ innovativeness.
Quantitative survey methods were adopted. To collecting the data, a questionnaire and path analysis were used. Two
hundred fifteen lecturers at several universities in Jakarta (Indonesia) participated in the study. The results indicate
that many academic cultures positively give direct influences to lecturers’ innovativeness, and task commitment
positively gives direct influences to lecturers’ innovativeness. The study concludes that training and mastery of the
use of media are needed to improve the competence and innovation of lecturers in conducting scientific research.