In the chapter, transformed Mycoplasma cells are identified because they produce a blue color. There are other ways to identify
cells that have taken up genetic material. For example, a piece of DNA containing genes for green fluorescent protein (GFP) and a yeast DNA-binding protein gene is used to identify yeast nuclei. What is the name for this construct?It is a reporter gene and a protein fusion gene that will produce a single protein that both binds to yeast nuclei and appears green.It is a reporter gene because it will produce a visible green product, but not a protein fusion gene because the proteins will not fuse.It is a reporter gene and an operon fusion gene because two separate protein products are produced.It is a protein fusion gene but not a reporter gene.
A reporter gene may be defined as the gene that are attached to the regulatory sequences to find the gene of the interest in research. The reporter gene can be easily identifiable.
The recombinant cells can be identified by the fusion of the reporter gene and the protein. Here, the green fluorescent protein acts as the reporter gene that can be easily identified and fuses with the protein that will produce a single the protein. The protein shows the green fluorescent that contains the yeast nuclei.
