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Transformation Methods
Plasmids
Definitions
100
This method of transformation shoots DNA into cells
What are gene guns?
100
Plasmids can be defined as _______.
What are vectors?
100
What is the name of the vehicles used to introduce foreign DNA can be introduced into cells?
What are vectors?
200
Bacterial cells are suspended in this solution at 0°C.
What is calcium chloride?
200
Smaller.
Are plasmids larger or smaller than bacterial chromosomes?
200
What is the type of relationship where one organism grows within the cells of another organism?
What is endosymbiosis?
300
What is the name of the bacterial transformation method that specifically uses electricity?
What is electroporation?
300
In what organelle can plasmids be found?
What is cytoplasm?
300
These cells that readily take up foreign DNA.
What are competent cells?
400
Why is the bacterial cell submerged in a solution cooled to 0°C?
The fluid bacterial membrane becomes more rigid.
400
What is the number of major proponents that compose a plasmid?
What is 3?
400
What is the type of relationship where one organism grows within the cells of another organism?
What is endosymbiosis?
500
Which major experiment prompted the discovery of the "transformation principle"?
What is the Griffeth's experiment?
500
These enzymes cut a plasmid's recognition sites, what are they called?
What are restriction enzymes?
500
What type of DNA has been composed of sequences from at least two different origins.
What is recombinant DNA?