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BAC

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Abbreviation for bacterial artificial chromosome.

An artificially created chromosome in which medium-sized segments of foreign DNA (pieces of DNA 100,000 to 300,000 bases in length from another species) are cloned into bacteria.

Once the foreign DNA has been cloned into the bacteria's chromosome, many copies of it can be made (amplified) and sequenced.

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