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1. Introduction to Course
2. Large-scale preparation of plasmid DNA
3. Estimation of plasmid DNA yield: digestion with restriction enzyme HindIII and agarose gel electrophoresis.
4. Mutagenesis of pBR325 with transposon Tn5; transformation
5. Isolation of pBR325::Tn5 DNA: plasmid mini-preps
6. Restriction mapping of Tn5 insertions
7. Restriction mapping (continued)
8. FIRST PAPER DUE. Deletion mutagenesis in vitro with Ba131 exonuclease
9. DNA amplification with PCR
10. Cloning; polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
11. Transfection with M13 recombinant DNA
12. Preparation of single-stranded M13 phage DNA
13. DNA sequencing (I)
14. DNA sequencing (II)
15. SECOND PAPER DUE; clean-up

 

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