Henry Cort topic. Henry Cort (?1741 â 23 May 1800) was an English ironmaster . During the Industrial Revolution in England, Cort began refining iron from pig iron to wrought iron (or bar iron) using innovative production systems. In 1783 he patented the puddling process for refining iron ore.
The most efficient procedure that scientists can use to obtain more recombinant DNA for a particular trait is to clone the recombinant DNA in a biological vector.
Transformation efficiency. Transformation efficiency is the efficiency by which cells can take up extracellular DNA and express genes encoded by it. This is based on the competence of the cells. It can be calculated by dividing the number of successful transformants by the amount of DNA used during a transformation procedure.