a control plate in your particular case is a ampicillin plate with no inoculation of your transformed bacteria. its purpose to make sure that during the process of handling the plate there were no contamination by bacteria in the surrounding.
The arabinose sugar binds to the RNA in the cell and helps turn on the gene expression to make GFP, green flourescent proteins. When you shine a UV light on the proteins, it will glow.
Bacteria generally have one (and only one) circular chromosome. However, they can also contain smaller rings of DNA called plasmids. These plasmids are generally not essential to cellular functions, but serve a variety of purposes. For example, they can serve as cloning vectors.
The best way to prove that these changes occurred in the transformation lab is to compare the control to the experimental plates. Cells that were not treated with the plasmit (LB/amp (-) pGLO and LB/amp/are (-) pGLO plates) could not grow on ampicillin, wheras cells that were treated with the plasmid (LB/amp (=) pGLO and lB/amp/ara (+) pGLO plate) can grow on the LB/amp plate. Thus, the plasmid must confer resistance to ampicillin.
The arabinose sugar binds to the RNA in the cell and helps turn on the gene expression to make GFP, green flourescent proteins. When you shine a UV light on the proteins, it will glow.
You would expect to find it in the plate labeled LB-, because that specific plate is the control plate, meaning it has nothing added to it, like the amipicilin or pFlouroGreen plasmid.
The purpose of examining the original pGLO solution with UV illumination was to detect bacteria. The purpose of examining the original pGLO solution without UV illumination was to detect the possibility that DNA cells existed.
No. You cannot tell if the bacteria are ampicillin resistant just by looking at them. Both types of bacteria (those that are ampicillin resistant and those that are ampicillin sensitive) look similar when cultured, think about the colonies on the LB starter plate and the colonies on the +pGLO LB/amp plate.
Colony shape and color
pGLO and GFP
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The pGlo plasmid contains an ampicillin resistance gene. This gene encodes an enzyme, β lactimase, which enzymatically degrades ampicillin. Therefore, bacteria that take up the plasmid (transformants) become resistant to ampicillin.
Bacteria generally have one (and only one) circular chromosome. However, they can also contain smaller rings of DNA called plasmids. These plasmids are generally not essential to cellular functions, but serve a variety of purposes. For example, they can serve as cloning vectors.