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Question
Answer the following question.
Expand ‘YAC’ and mention what it was used for.
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Solution
'YAC' → Yeast Artificial Chromosome :
It is used as a cloning vector for cloning DNA fragments in the suitable host so that DNA sequencing can be done.
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