Question 1
Assume that a researcher conducted a cloning experiment using a typical plasmid, transformed an appropriate host bacterial strain, and plated the bacteria on an appropriate X-gal medium. Blue and white colonies appeared. Which of the two types of colonies, blue or white, would more likely contain the recombinant plasmid? Why?
Question 2
When propagating a clone in the lambda phage, would you have more immediate success if the phage entered the lysogenic cycle or the lytic cycle?