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Why are yeast cells frequently used as hosts for cloning?5
Q: Why are yeast cells frequently used as hosts for cloning?
- 1they are eukaryotic cellstrue
- 2they do not have plasmidsfalse
- 3only yeast cells allow the gene to be clonedfalse
- 4they easily form coloniesfalse
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Answer : 1. "they are eukaryotic cells"
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Answer: A) they are eukaryotic cells Explanation: If you were to produce a protein in bacterial cloning systems, you would not get the same post transcriptional and post translational modifications because the prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems work differently on the modifications. Thus human recombinant protein genes are usually cloned in yeast cells. Also since they have a short generation time, they can be easily culture.