List two especially useful characteristics of cloning vectors.
A) high copy number and antibiotic resistance gene(s)
B) virulence and lysogenicity
C) ability to integrate into the host chromosome and then causing a lytic cycle
D) nonautonomous replication and transposition
E) reverse transcriptase and ligase activities

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High copy number of the cloning vector is useful for producing a large amount of recombinant DNA, and antibiotic resistance genes allow for selection of only the cells that have taken up the vector, ensuring that the plasmid is present in all the progeny of the transformed cell.

List Two Especially Useful Characteristics of Cloning Vectors