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How do transfections work? And how does FRET work? Like if I had a protein called X...

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Howdo transfections work? And how does FRET work? Like if I had aprotein called X lets say that I wanted to analyze the function of,how would I do that using FRET? I dont understand what FRET is orhow it works...doesn't it just tell you the location of a protein?
And how does inserting this protein into a plasmid and theninserting that plasmid into a cell help you study this? I am solost.

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Transfection is a process of deliberately introducing naked or purified nucleic acids into eukaryotic cellsIntaking of the nucleic acid by cell is done by endocytosisThis nucleic acids are transferred by means of plasmids or siRNA or short antisense oligonucleotidesThat is a desired foreign designed DNA insertion in a cell    See Answer
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