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Scientists have recently modified the bacteria that cause tooth decay by inserting a fragment of DNA into the bacteria's
DNA that prevents it from producing lactic acid What is the new DNA called?
foreign DNA
restriction DNA
O recombinant DNA
transgenic DNA
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User Hetaoblog
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C. recombinant DNA

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The answer is "Transgenic DNA".

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A transgenic, or genetically modified, organism is one that has been altered through recombinant DNA technology, which involves either the combining of DNA from different genomes or the insertion of foreign DNA into a genome.

This is definition of transgenic DNA which matches well with the description of the example that you gave. Since the doctors are inserting a DNA into a bacteria that they are trying to study, they had to insert it into a a foreign DNA to be able to know what this new form of bacteria is.

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