Chapter 9, Problem 10R

Summary Introduction

To review:

The virus family normally associated with AIDS, which may be useful for gene therapy.

Introduction:

In recombinant DNA technology, genes which confer an interested phenotype (drug-resistant genes) can be isolated and integrated into a vector. Such vectors, DNA molecule, act as a vehicle and aid in the transfer of foreign gene into another cell (bacterial or eukaryotic cell). The artificially modified DNA molecules in laboratory condition with desired genes isolated from different organisms is referred as the recombinant DNA (rDNA).