Day 3

2.Outcome #1, no colonies on any plate: This would suggest that the transformation was unsuccessful, because even the positive control with the un-engineered M13K07 DNA failed to grow in the presence of kanamycin, meaning the DNA was not taken up by the cell.

Outcome #2, thousands of colonies on all plates: This could indicate contamination because the cells transformed with the negative control for ligation, backbone only and no ligase, should not have kanamycin resistance.

Outcome #3, approximately the same number of colonies on the backbone+ligase+kill cut as the backbone+insert+ligase+kill cut: This could also indicate that there wasn't complete digestion during the kill-cut and some backbone managed to back-ligate and be transformed into the cells of both samples.

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