So having high blood sugar doesnât mean that you ate a lot of table sugar and the sugar is now in your bloodstream; it means you ate a lot of carbohydrates (from any source) and the sugar (glucose) is now in your bloodstream. Any digestible carbohydrate can raise blood sugar, although some raise it higher and faster than others.
If a mutation alters junk DNA, it doesnât do any harm because the junk isnât doing us any good to begin with. If our genome was 80 percent functionalâthe figure batted around when the ENCODE project results first came outâthen we should be extinct.
Using plasmids in the lab. Plasmids can be used as vectors to carry foreign DNA into a cell. Once inside the cell, the plasmid is copied by the host cellâs own DNA replication machinery. In the lab, plasmids are specifically designed so that the DNA they contain will be copied by bacteria.sing plasmids in the lab. Plasmids can be used as vectors to carry foreign DNA into a cell. Once inside the cell, the plasmid is copied by the host cellâs own DNA replication machinery. In the lab, plasmids are specifically designed so that the DNA they contain will be copied by bacteria.