Biology A-Level
insertional inactivation
What insertional inactivation means in Biology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Disrupting a second marker gene, which distinguishes recombinant plasmids from empty plasmids because the desired gene disrupts the second marker.
Topics that use insertional inactivation
- Recombinant DNA technology (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- cDNA and reverse transcriptase
- complementary base pairing
- DNA ligase
- polymerase chain reaction
- post-translational modification
- primers
- promoter region
- restriction endonucleases
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