Pglo Transformation Lab Report

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The process of the plasmid pGLO inserting to the genome E. coli is known as transformation. The bacterial transformation is the process by which bacterial cells take up naked DNA molecules (Bickle). This usually occurs with plasmids, small circular molecules of DNA (Reece). The plasmid DNA used in this experiment was pGLO that contains an ampicillin-resistance gene that enables to E. coli containing this plasmid to grow on the plate. The ampicillin is an antibiotic that eliminates bacterial growth by destroying the cell walls (Reece). The arabanose sugar that is located in the bacteria enables the production of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFT) to be able to see the bacteria glow brilliant green when is revealing to UV light. The presence of

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