Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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Author: Leland Hartwell Dr., Michael L. Goldberg Professor Dr., Janice Fischer, Leroy Hood Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 14, Problem 18P
Genes encoding toxins are often located on plasmids. A recent outbreak has just occurred in which a bacterium that is usually nonpathogenic is producing a toxin. Plasmid DNA can be isolated from this newly pathogenic bacterial strain and separated from the chromosomal DNA. To establish whether the plasmid DNA contains a gene encoding the toxin, you could determine the sequence of the entire plasmid and search for a sequence that looks like other toxin genes previously identified. An easier way exists to determine whether the plasmid DNA carries the gene(s) for the toxin; this strategy does not involve DNA sequence analysis. Describe this easier method.
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Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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