What is a plasmid? What is a vector?

princezz · #1 (**permalink**) 11-03-2007, 02:36 PM

i dont understand molecular biology can someone help me?
what is a plasmid? what is a vector? what are pORFES? plz help me out thank you.

kmunson779 · #2 (**permalink**) 11-05-2007, 03:33 PM

Try reading the Wikipedia page and if you have more specific questions, you can ask us here.

pORFES is a particular plasmid. If you do a search on PubMed you can see papers that use this plasmid.

princezz · #3 (**permalink**) 11-05-2007, 04:53 PM

Thank you

zhangwenhui · #4 (**permalink**) 11-06-2007, 10:17 AM

plasmid is heritic double strand DNA outside the chromsome in the living organism usually circuliar form.while a vector is a tool to tranfer the foreign
gene to the living organism . it include a selectable marker , a MCS a NCS,and ori .

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