Prescott's Microbiology 8th Edition by Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Christopher J. Woolverton, Lansing Prescott, John Harley, Donald Klein

Exercise 1

Since the 1970s, microbiologists have been able to study individual genes and whole genomes at the molecular level. What advances made this possible?

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Scientists are currently able to study the properties of individual genes as well as determining the entire complement of genetic material in a cell. Microbial genetics has been made possible by advances in cloning and genome sequencing.