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Glossary Term Plasmid
Definition A type of cloning vector derived from autonomously-replicating extrachromosomal circular DNAs in bacteria. The amount of foreign DNA that can be carried in a plasmid is small, ranging up to about 20 kb.
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MGI 6.17 		The Jackson Laboratory