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nucleoid
(redirected from Bacterial chromosome)

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nu·cle·oid  (nkl-oid, ny-)
n.
The part of a bacterium or virus that contains nucleic acid and is analogous in function to the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell.


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To test whether these 300 or so genes alone can sustain life, Venter and his colleagues have contemplated making an artificial bacterial chromosome containing only those genes.
Blue Heron is one of the few companies that routinely provides fragments of 10 to 20 kilo bases in length; this project could allow us to produce the largest mammalian genes and even bacterial chromosomes as a standard part of our service.
Southern hybridization with a probe for ORF8 after PFGE demonstrated that, in all the ORF8-positive strains, the largest NotI fragment (size approximately 1,080 kb) reacted with the probe, suggesting that f237 integrated into the bacterial chromosome.
 
 
 
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