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Name any two natural cloning vectors. Give reasons that make them act as cloning vectors. Write the two characteristics the engineered vectors are made to possess

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The two natural cloning vectors are Plasmids and bacteriophages. They have ability to replicate within bacterial cell and high copy number within the bacterial cell. 

Characteristics of engineered Vectors:

  • easy linking of foreign DNA,
  • Selection of recombinants from non- recombinants /selectable marker


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