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Bacteriophages are used to naturally insert foreign DNA into bacterial cells. In order to use a phage or plasmid as a vector, the desired DNA is combined with the DNA of the vector to form the recombinant DNA. If recombinant DNA gets inside a host cell, it can replicate along with the DNA of the host cell. Therefore several thousand copies of the desired DNA can be obtained.

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