Zusammenfassung der Ressource
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Bacteria can lose and acquire genes to/from the environment using mobile elements that can be shared between species
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What is a Pan-Genome?
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The sum of all core and accessory genes of a species
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The sum of all core and accessory genes of an individual
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The sum of all core and accessory genes of a strain
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What is the main pathological effect of Horizontal Gene Transfer?
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Can make non-pathogen strains pathogenic
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Excess DNA damages local cells
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Release of DNA diverts bacterial energy to virulence
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What is described here- Bacteriophages that have been incorporated into the genome
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Prophages
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Metaphages
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Intephages
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Integrated DNA can be stabilised by homologous recombination of the new DNA
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Which other methods allow the new DNA strands to integrate?
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Persistence of the episome (i,e, freely replicating plasmids)
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Integrations by the bacteriophage
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Illegitimate incorporation (i.e. Ds break repair)