Part F successfully transforming a strain of Staphylococcus aureus with a gene c

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Part F successfully transforming a strain of Staphylococcus aureus with a gene coding for a B-lactamase (a protein that degrades certain antibiotics), your instructo insists that you bleach your organisms and put them in the biohazard box to be destroyed. Why might your professor be so insistent about this step? This is to ensure that the organisms are easy to clean up. If they were not bleached or were just left on the bench top, it would make much more work for your instructor. This is a precaution to ensure that this newly created organism does not confer antibiotic resistance to any orpanisms in the environment The -lactamase protein could leak out of your plate and protect bacteria growing on the lab bench None of the available answers choices are correct (

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This is a precaution to ensure that this newly created organsm does not confer antibiotic resistance to any organisms in the environment.

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