All of the Following Statements About Genetic Engineering Are Correct

question 85

Multiple Choice

All of the following statements about genetic engineering are correct EXCEPT

• A) recipient strains of bacteria to be utilized for cloning of foreign DNA should have mutated restriction enzyme systems.
• B) recombinant plasmids are introduced into bacterial cells by transformation.
• C) recombinant DNA clones containing eukaryotic DNA inserts can be made to synthesize eukaryotic proteins in bacterial cells.
• D) bacterial plasmid vectors replicate and lyse bacterial cells forming plaques.
• E) DNA ligase is utilized to covalently join DNA molecules in the construction of recombinant molecules.

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