Plasmids are important in biotechnology because they are a vehicle "or taxi" for the insertion of foreign...

Question

genes into bacteria.right? thanks :]

Answer 1

Yes, but they can also be used in the same way to insert genes into other organisms e.g. yeast or mammalian cells, which are very important in biotech.

Also, as well as simply provide a means for getting the genes into cells, plasmids can also be used to control the expression of genes when they are in there.

Answer 2

Pretty much... they are easy to manipulate thus easy to work with.