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Bacteriophage lambda

A molecular_biology_glossary?id=3101&op=detail">virus which infects molecular_biology_glossary?id=852&op=detail">E. coli , and which is often used in molecular molecular_biology_glossary?id=9819&op=detail">genetics experiments as a molecular_biology_glossary?id=3089&op=detail">vector, or molecular_biology_glossary?id=9100&op=detail">cloning vehicle. recombinant molecular_biology_glossary?id=2279&op=detail">phages can be made in which certain non-molecular_biology_glossary?id=9592&op=detail">essential l molecular_biology_glossary?id=697&op=detail">DNA is removed and replaced with the molecular_biology_glossary?id=697&op=detail">DNA of interest. The molecular_biology_glossary?id=2279&op=detail">phage can accommodate a molecular_biology_glossary?id=697&op=detail">DNA "molecular_biology_glossary?id=10173&op=detail">insert" of about 15-20 kb. molecular_biology_glossary?id=2508&op=detail">replication of that molecular_biology_glossary?id=3101&op=detail">virus will thus replicate the investigator's molecular_biology_glossary?id=697&op=detail">DNA. One would use molecular_biology_glossary?id=2279&op=detail">phage l rather than a molecular_biology_glossary?id=2349&op=detail">plasmid if the desired piece of molecular_biology_glossary?id=697&op=detail">DNA is rather large.
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