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<p>A <b>cosmid</b> is a type of hybrid <a href="page.php?w=plasmid">plasmid</a> that contains a <a href="page.php?w=Lambda_phage">Lambda phage</a> cos sequence. Often used as <a href="page.php?w=cloning_vector">cloning vector</a>s in <a href="page.php?w=genetic_engineering">genetic engineering</a>, cosmids can be used to build <a href="page.php?w=Library_%28biology%29">genomic libraries</a>. They were first described by Collins and Hohn in 1978.Cosmids can contain 37 to 52 (normally 45) <a href="page.php?w=base_pair">kb</a> of DNA, limits based</p><p>
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