Molecular Biology of the Gene 7th Edition by Richard Losick, James Watson, Michael Levine, Tamara Baker, Alexander Gann

Exercise 10

In the scheme of feeding bacteria to worms to induce an RNAi response in worms, explain the purpose of the following components: lac promoter incorporated into the genome of E. coli, T7 gene incorporated into the genome of E. coli , and T7 promoter on the plasmid introduced into E. coli.