Question
Microbes found to be very useful in genetic engineering are
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Escherichia coli and Agrobacterium tumefaciens
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Vibrio cholerae and a tailed bacteriophage
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Diplococcus sp. and Pseudomonas sp
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Crown gall bacterium and Caenorhabditis elegans
Solution
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Escherichia coli and Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Escherichia coli and Agrobacterium tumefaciens are the microbes found to be very useful in genetic engineering.
E. coli is a motile, gram negative, rod shaped bacterium which is a normal inhabitant of human colon. It is most extensively used in bacterial genetics and molecular biology.
Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a soil bacterium. It has Ti plasmid (Tumour inducing plasmid) and it can be used for the transfer of a desired gene in dicot plants.
