Question

While clonig vectors, which of the 2 will be preferred by biotechnologist- bacteriophages or plasmids. Justify with reasons?

Answer 1

Answer:

Biotechnologist will prefer bacteriophage as the preferred cloning vector. Reason : Bacteriophage have very high copy numbers of their genome within the bacterial cell whereas, plasmids have variable copy number per cell, some may have only one or two copies per cell and others may have 15-100 copies per cell.2