What would happen when one grows a recombinant bacterium in a bioreactor but forget to add antibiotic to the medium in which the recombinant is growing?
Bioreactors are the large vessels in which raw materials are biologically converted into the specific products. Recombinant DNA leads to the synthesis of desired proteins which is also known as recombinant proteins under the controlled conditions and large scale production of these products are carried out by bioreactors. Antibiotics presence makes sure that bacteria retains the plasmid which contains antibiotic resistant genes.
In the absence of antibiotics, there will be no pressure to continue the plasmid on the recombination processes and as a result it will not maintain the high copy number of plasmids which made due to the metabolic pressure. And hence lose the continuity of making the high copy number of plasmids.
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