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This job names three DNA features that are necessary to make a green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter construct and indicates which of these controls the tissues in which GFP will be expressed if the construct is used to make a transgenic mouse.

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This job explains some aspects of green fluorescent protein.

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First of all, you will need the GFP cDNA. Second, you will need a suitable restriction site upstream of the cDNA so that you can insert your promoter region of choice. Third, you ...

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