Question

What is the cell that receives a recombinant gene called?

Answer 1

Explanation:

competent host cell!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

A competent host cell that receives a recombinant gene called a plasmid.

• Competent cells are bacterial cells that can accept additional chromosomal DNA or plasmids from the environment.

• Plasmid is a small, circular, double-stranded DNA molecule.

• Plasmid molecules naturally exist in bacterial cells. Bacteria can also transfer plasmids to one another through a process called conjugation.

• Plasmids used as tools to clone or transfer DNA fragments or genes into a bacterium by the way of the method is called transformation.