Plasmids 101: Transformation, Transduction, Bacterial Conjugation, and Transfection
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...two nutritional deficient E. coli strains that resulted in a wild type E. coli (Griffiths et al., 2000)...don't exactly "eat" plasmids as depicted in this comic, when a bacterium uptakes a plasmid, the genes on the... the plasmid can give them different phenotypes. For example, this plasmid encodes a green fluorescent...
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Resources...comes from adjacent lysed bacteria and can include plasmid DNA or fragmented DNA released into the environment...membrane so the bacteria can easily uptake your plasmid of interest. Scientists can also use electroporation...exist as transient extrachromosomal DNA, like a plasmid, or it can integrate into the host bacterium’s ...