E. coli cells usually have only one copy of the F plasmidper cell. You have isolated a cell in which a mutationincreases the copy number of F to three to four per cell.How could you distinguish between the possibility thatthe copy number change was due to a mutation in theF plasmid versus a mutation in a chromosomal gene?

E. coli cells usually have only one copy of the F plasmidper cell. You have isolated a cell in which a mutationincreases the copy number of F to three to four per cell.How could you distinguish between the possibility thatthe copy number change was due to a mutation in theF plasmid versus a mutation in a chromosomal gene?

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Biology Today and Tomorrow without Physiology (MindTap Course List)

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Author:Cecie Starr, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr

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Chapter10: Biotechnology

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