Antibiotic resistance

... control, but essentially useless and uninformative - unless your antibiotic does not work anymore. The other suggestion - transformation using wrong plasmid (another antibiotic resistance) - is also wrong and has no value.

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... can either transform them with nothing or transform with plasmid with resistance to other antibiotic and then plate on two plates

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... control? I know if the cloning works the plasmid ligates and an antibiotic resistant gene on the plasmid starts to be expressed. If E. coli ... didn't just spontaneously mutate and ligate and express the antibiotic resistance?? I'm stumped.

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... of genetic information. ... Rather than saying the bacterium gained resistance to the antibiotic, it is more correct to say that is lost sensitivity to it. ... All point mutations ...

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... of genetic information. ... Rather than saying the bacterium gained resistance to the antibiotic, it is more correct to say that is lost sensitivity to it. ... All point mutations ...

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