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... then isolated and sequenced. A clone with the correct sequence was identified and transplanted in Mycoplama capricolum subspecies capricolum recipient cells in which the restriction modification system had been inactivated. This synthetic M. mycoide genome can be isolated for future work. ...

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... Venter and his team designed the new chromosome and then engineered a way (using the already existing machinery in yeast) to insert it into the recipient cell thus creating a new species. The “stuff of fairies” I refer to, is what exists in peoples imagination and especially so when it is disregards ...

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... occur in nature. In other words, for DNA to be taken up from another organism, what stages of transfer would be required from both donor and recipient. You are a biologist so you should have no difficulty in explaining to this forum what those stages would be. I'm not unable, but as I've ...

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... occur in nature. In other words, for DNA to be taken up from another organism, what stages of transfer would be required from both donor and recipient. You are a biologist so you should have no difficulty in explaining to this forum what those stages would be. Would you do that, please. If ...

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... if extinct and unsampled lineages are taken into consideration. Especially for small gene families the distinction between gene-transfer donor and recipient often is not possible. The identification of donors and recipients is certainly probabilistic and not absolute. However, these limitations ...

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