So we played around with some E. coli for our lab and added pGLO genes to it. These genes made it resistant to ampicillin, an antibiotic, and glow under a UV light. Well, sometimes glow under a UV light. Since that gene was located behind the arabinose operon, which is inducible, arabinose is needed to be able to code for that protein. Fun, huh? With that sugar, our little bacteria colonies could glow in the dark and not die, so they're gonna take over the world and start a pandemic and wait no, we killed them. Anyway, they were really cool and I think I get the operon system now! Protein synthesis, that's another story (see awful quiz where I got a 2/10).
But there is so much more on this lab, and it can be found in this huge, comprehensive lab report right here!
No comments:
Post a Comment