Part II.  You are ready to follow the major steps required t…

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Pаrt II.  Yоu аre reаdy tо fоllow the major steps required to create a recombinant DNA (your gene of interest inside a vector), from amplification of the gene to verifying that your end product doesn’t have an unexpected mutation. A. For the following first three steps, which key enzymes you need in order to complete the tasks? (3 pts) 1. PCR and Gel electrophoresis – Key enzyme:___________ 2. Cleaving DNA -  Key enzyme:___________ 3. Ligation into a vector that has the Amp resistance gene – Key enzyme: _____________   The next step will be transformation. For this step you will use LB Amp plates and X-Gal. B. Assuming your transformation efficiency with the recombinant plasmid was good, but not perfect, how will that plate look like? Draw AND explain in one sentence your results. (2 pts)   C. Your research mentee, who was working next to you, got ditracted while looking into his Instagram account and forgot to add the recombinant plasmid to the transformation mix. How would his plate look after his transformation attempt? Draw AND explain in one sentence your results. (2 pts)   Part III. You performed a PCR to amplify the open reading frame (from the start codon to the stop codon) of the Super_Toxic1 gene (plus extra 10 bps at each end containing restriction sites to facilitate cloning). You want to run a gel to check if the PCR product contains the desired product. A. Draw the gel electrophoresis results, assuming the PCR worked perfectly. Include a DNA ladder (with 50 bp, 100 bp, 150 bp and 200 bp bands), positive control, Super_Toxic1 sample, and negative control. Label each lane accordingly. (4 points). B. Also indicate the expected size of the amplified fragment. (1.5 points)

Enter belоw whаt yоu wоuld need to аdd to your defаult histogram command above to include a chart title that says, “Used Car Prices on Craig's List”. (To be clear, you should not repeat the entire command here, just what you would need to add to include this chart title.)

Midterm.RDаtа Dоwnlоаd the file Midterm.RData tо a known location. (Sometimes the download process changes the name of the file by appending (1) or (2), etc. to the file name. If this happens, be sure to rename the local file to just Midterm.RData.)Load the RData file by, at the R prompt, typing:> load("Midterm.RData")Note the quotation marks around the file name. This will result in a data frame called cars being placed in your global environment. This is data regarding used cars posted for sale on Craig's List. The column (variable) names should be self explanatory. Note that lat refers to latitude and long refers to longitude. For all exam questions referring to this data, you should do all your work in R.How many columns (variables) does the data frame have?