A piece of DNA inserted into a cloning vector by recombinant DNA techniques. For genomic cloning vectors, insert sequences typically range in size from 10’s of kilobases (cosmids, fosmids), to 100’s of kilobases (BAC, PACs) up to ~2MB (YACs).
A piece of DNA inserted into a cloning vector by recombinant DNA techniques. For genomic cloning vectors, insert sequences typically range in size from 10’s of kilobases (cosmids, fosmids), to 100’s of kilobases (BAC, PACs) up to ~2MB (YACs).