Which of the following is not a cloning vector?
- Probe
- YAC
- BAC
- pBR322
Solution
A cloning vector is a small piece of DNA that can be stably maintained in an organism, and into which a foreign DNA fragment can be inserted for cloning.
- Plasmids (like pBR322) is a very common cloning vector.
- YAC (Yeast Artificial Chromosome) and BAC (Bacterial Artificial Chromosome) are used as vectors in human genome project.
Asked in: NEET 2023 (All India)
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