This laboratory experiment transformed E. coli bacteria with a pGLO plasmid containing the GFP gene from jellyfish using electroporation and heat shock. Students used the GFP gene as a visual marker to observe if transformation was successful by looking for fluorescence in bacterial colonies grown on agar plates containing arabinose, which regulates GFP protein expression. Only bacterial colonies grown on plates with ampicillin and arabinose exhibited fluorescence, confirming successful transformation and expression of the GFP gene.