Multiplication of the Transformed Host Cell

Once transformed cells have been picked out by this screening process, they are introduced into fresh culture medium. Here, the host cells divide and re-divide repeatedly, and as they do so, the recombinant DNA they carry is replicated along with them, building up a large population of cells all carrying the same rDNA. (India's own Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, CCMB, in Hyderabad, is a premier research organisation working in frontier areas of modern biology, including DNA fingerprinting and molecular approaches to animal breeding, and is …