You want to produce mass amounts of oxytocin, a small peptide hormone produced by the pituitary gland in humans that plays a role in uterine contraction during child birth and lactation during nursing. Your basic approach will be to obtain the gene for oxytocin from the pituitary gland, splice it into a bacterial plasmid, then grow lots of the bacteria to obtain lots of the hormone. For each tool or item listed below, describe what role it plays in the approach you are using to make lots of oxytocin. Bacterial plasmid Restriction enzyme DNA ligasec DNA

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You want to produce mass amounts of oxytocin, a small peptide hormone produced by the pituitary gland in humans that plays a role in uterine contraction during child birth and lactation during nursing. Your basic approach will be to obtain the gene for oxytocin from the pituitary gland, splice it into a bacterial plasmid, then grow lots of the bacteria to obtain lots of the hormone. For each tool or item listed below, describe what role it plays in the approach you are using to make lots of oxytocin.

Bacterial plasmid

Restriction enzyme

DNA ligasec

DNA

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