Plasmid used to construct the first recombinant DNA was isolated from which bacterium species?

Question

Plasmid used to construct the first recombinant DNA was isolated from which bacterium species? (A) Escherichia coli (B) Salmonella typhimurium (C) Agrobacterium tumefaciens (D) Thermus aquaticus

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The first recombinant DNA was constructed by Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer in 1972. They cut the piece of DNA from a plasmid carrying antibiotic resistance gene in the bacterium Salmonella typhimurium and linked it to the plasmid of Escherichia coli.

Q. Plasmid used to construct the first recombinant $D N A$ was isolated from which bacterium species?

Escherichia coli

Salmonella typhimurium

Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Thermus aquaticus

The first recombinant $D N A$ was constructed by Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer in $1972$ . They cut the piece of $D N A$ from a plasmid carrying antibiotic resistance gene in the bacterium Salmonella typhimurium and linked it to the plasmid of Escherichia coli.

Q. Plasmid used to construct the first recombinant DNA was isolated from which bacterium species?