What is the difference between rDNA and cDNA?

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Lifeeasy Authors · Answer 1

**Difference between rDNA and cDNA**
	rDNA	cDNA
1.	It is Recombinant DNA	It is complementary DNA i.e. DNA that is complementary to m-RNA
2.	It is formed by joining the DNA obtained from two different organisms	It is synthesized from m-RNA by reverse transcription catalyzed by the enzyme Reverse transcriptase

chaithra · Answer 2

rDNA:

1. Recombinant DNA is a process of transferring a specific form of desired gene into targeted gene....

2. rDNA is used for many process like transformation, gene therapy etc...

3. Gene library has rDNA

cDNA:

1. It is formed by the process of Reverse transcriptase.

2. Reverse transcriptase is a process of formation of complementary DNA from mRNA.

3. cDNA contain polyadenylated sequences at 5' end..

4. cDNA library has cDNA