Class 12th Biology 2017 Set1 Outside Delhi Board Paper Solution
Question 13
Explain ‘YAC’ and mention what was it used for.
Answer
YAC (Yeast Artificial Chromosomes) represent the host cells used for cloning of DNA fragments using specialised vectors. The cloning resulted into amplification of each piece of DNA fragment so that is subsequently could be sequenced with ease.
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