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Introduction
The lab at hand tackles ‘transformation,’ a process by which the phenotype of a cell or organism is altered by the uptake of exogenous genetic material. Transformation is important because it allows biologists to use recombinant DNA to remove DNA from cells and rearrange it in a precise way. The methods in this lab demonstrate the ability of pure DNA to alter the phenotype of a cell, proving that DNA is the genetic material of a cell. Transformation requires that cells be in a competent state. ... coli, the bacteria of use in this lab has limited transformation capacity that must be enhanced. ... Therefore, transformation will occur in the absence of genetic recombination. Our goal in this lab is to optimize the effectiveness of transformation and transform DNA into E. ... We will be using two measures of transformation success (transformability and transformation success) to measure how the E.
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