Understanding DNA and Gene Cloning: A Guide for the CuriousDo you realize how much impact DNA technology has on your life today? Registering your child's DNA with the police, bold new medical cures, the perfect tomato, gene cloning and DNA manipulation are no longer remote events that will have impact in your life - they are today's headlines! In this highly acclaimed guide, Karl Drlica fully explains the basis of the ongoing genetic revolution. He guides you through the science and technology you need to understand the issues and make informed decisions. This text can be used either as a main text in a course where instructors want to use a thematic, case study approach to biology, a non-majors genes or genomics course, or as a supplement for Introductory Biology. |
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... host DNA . Release of the plas- mid into the environment would allow it to infect a new host , and as a result of that infection the new host would acquire a section of DNA that had come from the previous host cell . Transfer of the Ti ...
... host DNA . Release of the plas- mid into the environment would allow it to infect a new host , and as a result of that infection the new host would acquire a section of DNA that had come from the previous host cell . Transfer of the Ti ...
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... host chromosomes . Thus retroviruses that are engineered to carry human genes may be used to permanently alter human cells and thereby cure some genetic diseases . Since the envelope proteins of the virus mediate infection by ...
... host chromosomes . Thus retroviruses that are engineered to carry human genes may be used to permanently alter human cells and thereby cure some genetic diseases . Since the envelope proteins of the virus mediate infection by ...
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... host an organism that provides the life support system for another organ- ism , virus , or plasmid . E. coli is a host for certain plasmids that exist in- side the bacterium , and we are hosts for E. coli , since it lives inside us ...
... host an organism that provides the life support system for another organ- ism , virus , or plasmid . E. coli is a host for certain plasmids that exist in- side the bacterium , and we are hosts for E. coli , since it lives inside us ...
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