Which one of the following organism's plasmid was used successfully for the first time as a vector by Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer?
A
Salmonella typhimurium
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B
Streptococcus pneumoniae
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C
Staphylococcus aureus
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D
Rhizobium leguminosarum
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Solution
The correct option is BSalmonella typhimurium S. Cohen and H. Boyer constructed the first recombinant DNA using antibiotic resistance genes present on the plasmid of drug resistance strains of E. coli. This gene was linked to the native plasmid of Salmonella typhimurium.