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The process of breaking and recombining strands of DNA.

The process of recombination breaks DNA strands and recombines them to produce new combinations of alleles. Recombination creates genetic diversity at the level of genes, which is reflected in sequence variation among organisms.

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Why does the insulin taken from pig when injected into humans causes allergy but not the insulin taken from bacteria?

At earlier times, insulin was injected to human patients that were taken from pigs and horses. But that caused allergy it seems. But why is the insulin produced by the recombinant bacteria not causing such types of allergy?

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asked Aug 20 '17 at 21:34

Kawin M

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How long the homologous arms of the "repair" sequence must be to do homologous recombination?

I am trying to figure out the details of the homolougous recombination in order to be able to insert a certain piece of DNA in the host genome after double strand break.. Does anybody know how long the homology arms of the repair template must be ?…

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asked Mar 12 '15 at 01:01

Pao