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Quick questions on Gene cloning and transformation: O-Level Genetic Engineering Techniques
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What is transformation?Show answer
Transformation is the process by which bacteria take up the recombinant plasmid from their surroundings.
What are identifying transformed cells with marker genes?Show answer
Because not every bacterium is transformed, plasmids carry a marker gene that makes the successful ones detectable:
What is q1?Show answer
Define transformation as used in genetic engineering. [1 mark]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain how an antibiotic-resistance marker gene is used to identify transformed bacteria. [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
State what happens to the gene as the transformed bacteria multiply in a bioreactor. [2 marks]
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