...daughter cells. These daughter cells contain the same genetic information as the parental cell, and are...with the host cell. Like the bacterial chromosomal DNA, plasmid DNA is replicated upon cell division, and...chemistry enable isolation and purification of cellular components, such as DNA, but practically this ...and each daughter cell receives at least one copy of the plasmid. By the 1970s the combined discoveries...are thus termed clones of the original cell. The plasmid DNA is similarly referred to as cloned DNA, and... and ideally would replicate these plasmids upon cell division in addition to their own genomic DNA. Because...additional replication burden, the rate of bacterial cell division is reduced (i.e., it takes more time to...