Homework Help: biology

Posted by Lily on Monday, July 5, 2010 at 9:50am.

When genetically engineering an organism, a plasmid

a. is the main chromosome of the bacteria that is cloned.

b. is cut with a restriction enzyme to accept the gene of interest.

c. helps screen for cells that did not take up the gene of interest.

d. combines with the gene of interest to make a replicating chromosome.

B or D?

biology - drwls, Monday, July 5, 2010 at 9:56am
According to
http://library.thinkquest.org/C004367/be9.shtml
it sounds like B.
biology - Lily, Monday, July 5, 2010 at 10:03am
Thank you!
biology - Julie Anne, Monday, July 5, 2010 at 10:05am
b

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