Based on your understanding of plasmids’ answer the following questions. 1. Why is a daughter cell that fails to inherit a kind of plasmid dies?

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Q. Based on your understanding of plasmids’ answer the following questions.
1. Why is a daughter cell that fails to inherit a kind of plasmid dies? 
2. How transfer of Col E1 plasmid to an F cell occurs? 
3. What component you will must include in constructing a plasmid cloning vector that can replicate in both bacteria and yeast? 
4. How copy number of a plasmid may affect its segregation? 
5. How the yeast 2u circle maintains 80 copies in a cell?

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