Sentences with phrase «bacterial plasmids»
"Bacterial plasmids" refers to small, circular pieces of genetic material found in bacteria. These plasmids can carry extra genes that give the bacteria new abilities, like resistance to antibiotics. They can be passed between bacteria, allowing them to share these new traits with each other. Full definition
GDB's Internet - accessible files contain descriptions of human genes, maps of genome regions, genetic «markers» to help guide researchers, and 1.5 million «clones» — short human DNA sequences inserted into bacterial plasmids — that provide what are called «physical maps» to the genome.
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As a first step in addressing this issue, we prepared and analyzed a mock DNA community composed of ten bacterial plasmids encoding near full length 16S rRNA gene fragments.
«Recombinant DNA technology», «DNA cloning», «molecular cloning» or «gene cloning» all describe the process of transferring a DNA fragment from one organism to a self - replicating genetic element (a cloning vector) such as a bacterial plasmid, enabling the fragment to be propagated in an alien host.
A complete, cloned complementary DNA copy of the RNA genome of poliovirus was constructed in the Pst I site of the bacterial plasmid pBR322.
In the cases of viruses with small DNA genomes, such as the tumorigenic simian virus 40 (SV40), the entire viral DNA can be inserted into the bacterial plasmid pBR322 and cloned in Escherichia coli.
In the December issue of Nature Genetics, Waters reports that a few days later, one in every 10,000 mammalian cells tested positive for a bacterial plasmid.