Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305073951
Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Introduction: Plasmids are the extra-chromosomal circular DNA found in many bacterial cells. Plasmids are used for the bacterial conjugation. It consists of genes like antibiotic resistance gene that provides the bacterial cells with additional features. Plasmids are independent of the chromosomal DNA for their replication. Plasmids are varied in size (ranges from hundreds to thousands of DNA base pairs per plasmids).

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