Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids
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... used for plasmid-based experiments.
What are control plasmids?
Generally, control plasmids help to ensure...follow an example of a plasmid-based experiment, delineate its requisite control plasmids, and discuss why ...above are from a single experiment wherein Plasmid A (encoding shRNA against human Gene X in backbone Y)...proper control plasmids would address and answer these questions.
Types of control plasmids
Part of planning...conditions and plasmids should produce a null effect (i.e., no phenomenon is observed). In any plasmid-based experiment... in Plasmid A is the decreased expression of Gene X. Ergo the positive control(s) should decrease the ... and not some other unintended factor. Control plasmids are used to minimize any effects of the non-independent...