{"id":47975,"date":"2024-09-15T15:34:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T15:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=47975"},"modified":"2024-09-15T15:34:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T15:34:59","slug":"biology-what-is-a-plasmid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-what-is-a-plasmid\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology: what is a plasmid?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring biology, terms come up. The tutor mentions plasmid.<\/h2>\n<p>\nIn cell biology, a plasmid is a section of DNA outside of and independent from the cell&#8217;s chromosomes.<\/p>\n<p>\nA plasmid may contain genes not found in the chromosomes of its host. Therefore, the plasmid can increase the faculties of its containing cell.<\/p>\n<p>\nPlasmids can join with the chromosomal DNA or otherwise replicate independently of it. They are used for DNA manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genome.gov\/genetics-glossary\/Plasmid\">genome.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addgene.org\/mol-bio-reference\/\">addgene.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bio.libretexts.org\/Bookshelves\/Microbiology\/Microbiology_(Boundless)\/07%3A_Microbial_Genetics\/7.04%3A_Plasmids\/7.4A%3A_Introduction_to_Plasmids\">bio.libretexts.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring biology, terms come up. The tutor mentions plasmid. In cell biology, a plasmid is a section of DNA outside of and independent from the cell&#8217;s chromosomes. A plasmid may contain genes not found in the chromosomes of its host. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-what-is-a-plasmid\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biology: what is a plasmid?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[3365,1203,3367,3266,3366],"class_list":["post-47975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","tag-biotechnology","tag-dna","tag-genetics","tag-microbiology","tag-plasmid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47977,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47975\/revisions\/47977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}