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If mrnas could be ligated and replicated within plasmids, what enzyme commonly used in recombinant dna technology would no longer be needed? if mrnas could be ligated and replicated within plasmids, what enzyme commonly used in recombinant dna technology would no longer be needed? rna polymerase reverse transcriptase taq polymerase restriction enzymes dna polymerase

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The correct answer is reverse transcriptase.

Reverse transcriptase is an enzyme used to generate complementary DNA (cDNA) from an RNA. This enzyme is often inserted together with eukaryotic mRNA into bacteria, so that mRNA could be inserted into the bacteria's genome.
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