Molecular Biology 5th Edition by Robert Weaver

Exercise 2

You are interested in measuring the rate of transfer of a hypothetical transposon, Stealth, from one plasmid, carrying two antibiotic resistance genes of its own, to another plasmid, which carries the gene for chloramphenicol resistance. ( Stealth carries an ampicillin resistance gene.) Describe an experiment you would perform to assay for this transposition.