Amp resistance is an abbreviation for resistance to the antibiotic ampicillin. It is used as a selectable marker in bacterial transformation. See antibiotic resistance
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Amp resistance
A bacterium is resistant to the antibiotic Ampicillin.
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Amp resistance: See "Antibiotic resistance".
Anneal: Generally synonymous with "hybridize".
Cells growing in the presence of ampicillin synthesize weak cell walls, causing them to burst due to the high internal osmotic pressure. Amp resistance encoded by most transposons and plasmids is due to a periplasmic Beta-lactamase that breaks the ...
 See also: DNA, Antibiotic, Bacteria, Expression, Organ
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