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What is the purpose of engineering a plasmid with a bioluminescent gene, specifically in human gene cloning?

April 26, 2017Biology bioluminescent Engineering gene Mathematics plasmid purpose

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What is the purpose of engineering a plasmid with a bioluminescent gene, specifically in human gene cloning?

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The purpose of this is so that you can see the plasmid has been transfected by looking at the cells that light up. Cells that don’t light up, did not get the plasmid, and thus do not get the bioluminescent gene and more importantly the gene of interest that you intended to transfect.