What is recombinant DNA?

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It's in the book. (It just might be in "paragraph" form, though. <>

Answer 2

Recombinant DNA (rDNA) is an artificial DNA sequence resulting from the combining of two other DNA sequences in a plasmid. A recombinant protein is a protein produced by an organism after the relevant DNA is inserted into its genome (that is, by a genetically modified organism). This recombines the DNA of two different organisms.

Recombinant DNA technique was discovered by Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer in 1973. They published their findings in November 1973 in the paper “Construction of Biologically Functional Bacterial Plasmids in vitro”, which described a technique to isolate and amplify genes, or DNA segments, and insert them into another cell with precision creating a Transgenic Bacteria. Recombinant DNA technology was made possible by the discovery of restriction endonucleases by Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, and Hamilton Smith, for which they received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Answer 3

Referring to something formed by combining existing elements in a new combination. Especially in the prase recombinant DNA referring to an organism created in the lab by adding DNA from another species.
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DNA that was taken from a host and recombined in a plasmid.

Answer 5

(sometimes rDNA) is an artificial DNA sequence resulting from the combining of two other DNA sequences in a plasmid.