4. Scientists often combine an antibiotic resistance gene with whatever they are trying to clone. The desired gene is th

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4. Scientists often combine an antibiotic resistance gene with whatever they are trying to clone. The desired gene is then associated with an antibiotic resistance gene. Any bacterium that contains the desired gene is then resistant to an antibiotic. In most cases, the scientists have no use for the protein that destroys the antibiotic. Why would scientists combine genes in this way?