Recombinant DNA technology enables individual fragments of DNA from any genome to be inserted into vector DNA molecules, such as plasmids, and individually amplified in bacteria. Each amplified fragment is called a DNA clone.he vector molecules with their inserts are called recombinant DNA because they consist of novel combinations of DNA from the donor genome (which can be from any organism) with vector DNA from a completely different source (generally a bacterial plasmid or a virus).
The Mississippi River begins in Lake Itasca in Minnesota, flows through the middle of the continental United States and finally ends in the Gulf of Mexico. At 2,350 miles long, it is the third-longest river in North America.
The source of the Mississippi River is Lake Itasca in Minnesota and the mouth of the river is the Gulf of Mexico. There are also a number of large and small tributaries of the river, some of which include the Ohio, Missouri and Red Rivers (map). In total the Mississippi River drains about 41% of the U.S. and borders ten different states. The following is a list of the ten states bordering the Mississippi River in order from north to south. For reference, the area, population and capital city of each state has been included.