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    Briefly describe the purpose of the following features found in all or many plasmid cloning vectors.

    a) origin of replication (ori)
    b) multiple cloning site (polylinker)
    c) antibiotic resistane gene

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    Hi

    There are lots of good sites describing plasmid cloning vectors (which I used to get this information):

    http://www.web-books.com/MoBio/Free/Ch9A4.htm
    http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/mcclean/plsc431/cloning/clone3.htm
    http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF/C08/C08Links/mbclserver.rutgers.edu/~sofer/cloningvectors.html

    A cloning vector is used as a carrier for the insertion and expression of a gene of interest, and as ...

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