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An antibiotic resistance gene of plasmid vector which get inactivated due to insertion of alien DNA, helps in the selection of–
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When a foreign DNA fragment is inserted into an antibiotic resistance gene of a plasmid, that gene gets inactivated. This process, called insertional inactivation, helps identify recombinant cells containing the foreign DNA.
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