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lunes, 1 de junio de 2020

Automation of Bacterial Transformation Processes

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Automation of Bacterial Transformation Processes

Bacterial transformation involves introducing foreign plasmid DNA into a bacterial call. Scientists use this to analyse bacteria, and for the storage and replication of the plasmid. DNA plasmids are usually designed to include a bacterial origin of replication (ORI) and an antibiotic resistance gene, to be used as a selection marker.

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