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Selection is an important step in genetic engineering. You are given ampicillin and tetracycline antibiotics. Using these antibiotics, which selection technique could be used to differentiate between recombinant and non-recombinant cells?

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Replica plating.

• Host cells are first plated (master plate) on solid media with the desired antibiotic overnight.

• Velvet paper is aligned, pressed on master plate.

• With the same alignment it is pressed onto the replica plate.

• Keep it overnight ,transformed colonies will not grow in replica plate

• The colonies having insert can easily be scored off from master plate by comparing the two plates.



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