January 8, 2017 Avi Eberstein. In an interview last week on CNBCâs âPower Lunch,â former Piper Jaffray senior tech analyst turned venture capitalist Gene Munster said that virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics collectively are going to be a âbigger deal than the internet and mobile.â.
Importance. Plasmids come in many different sizes and are used for many different purposes in biotechnology. They first made their mark in the field of recombinant DNA in the 1970s, being used as a tool to insert genes into bacteria to encourage their production of therapeutic proteins such as human insulin.ble to self-replicate, plasmids can be picked up from the environment and transferred between bacteria. Plasmids are used by their host organism to cope with stress-related conditions. Many plasmids, for example, carry genes that code for the production of enzymes to inactivate antibiotics or poisons.
Controversies. Bacterial plasmids used in gene cloning naturally contain genes that encode some form of antibiotic resistance. As a result of the gene cloning process, the cloned genes that are put into plant cells to make a transgenic plant may also have an antibiotic resistance gene.tep 1: DNA extracted from an organism, with the gene of interest, is cut into gene-size pieces with restriction enzymes. These enzymes read the nucleotide sequence of the DNA and recognize specific sequences. The enzymes then cut the DNA sequence by breaking the bonds between nucleotides in a DNA strand.