Plasmids 101: A Brief History of Plasmids and an Improved eBook!
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Oct. 29, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
...1952 was noted to integrate into the E. coli chromosome in some cases. This terminology held until the 1960s...-factors could integrate into the chromosome. Thus the term “episome” was eventually dropped and we’ve...Latin for 'it'), as “a generic term for any extrachromsomal hereditary determinant”. His proposal, however...however, was basically ignored. A separate term, “episome”, defined as “a non-essential genetic element which...exist either autonomously or integrated into the chromosome” was proposed a few years later by Élie Jacob...name for these elements. At the time, the use of episome seemed appropriate, especially since the Fertility...1960s when scientists began to study other extrachromosomal particles, particularly Resistance or R-factors...