Can you think and answer how a reporter enzyme can be used to monitor transformation of host cells by foreign DNA in addition to a selectable marker?
Can you think and answer how a reporter enzyme can be used to monitor transformation of host cells by foreign DNA in addition to a selectable marker?

DNA CONSTRUCT 

 ●A collective DNA construct is introduced into the cell where the reporter gene is used as a selectable marker to discover the successful uptake of foreign genes.

● Example of a reporter gene is lac Z gene  in  a jellyfish  that encodes for a green fluorescent protein.