List two especially useful characteristics of cloning vectors

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


A

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