Question

Briefly describe how the artificial manipulation of plasmids has been used for technological applications

Answer 1

The incorporation of a desired gene from specie to another is achieved using plasmids. We can also say it is used to incorporate a desired gene from particular specie to specie. It is also genetic modification.  

The process by which the genetic makeup of an organism is altered is known as genetic modification or genetic engineering.

Examples in this case would be to take a plasmid into antibiotic-resistant bacteria and put it into bacteria that are not resistant to antibiotic, for that reason plasmid insertion into the bacteria that are not resistant to antibiotic would make it to be resistant to antibiotic.  

Plasmids are a small molecule of DNA within a cell physically separated from a chromosomal DNA and is able to replicate independently. Plasmids are mostly found in bacteria as small circular, double-stranded DNA, though they are also presents in archaea and eukaryotic organisms.

Plasmids typically can be found in bacterial cells and the gene they carried has advantage towards bacteria (antibiotic resistance).  Plasmids are wide in lengths, from about 1000 base pairs to hundred thousands of base pairs.

Plasmids are commonly used by scientists as tools to clone and manipulate genes. Plasmids that are used for these particular purposes are called vectors.

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• resistant to antibiotic
• desired gene
• genetic modification
• base pairs
• bacteria

Answer 2

Described very simplistically, plasmids allow the incorporation of a desirable gene from one species into another species. This is in effect genetic modification. For example, to increase the resistance of corn to pest insects, the insecticidal proteins Cry1F and Cry34/35Ab1 have been taken from the common soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis and incorporated into GMO corn.