L35 Microbial genetics – microbes and medicine

Which statement best describes a plasmid?

A bacteria undergoes binary fission to create two genetically identical bacteria. Which method of gene transfer is this?

In [blank_start]horizontal[blank_end] gene transfer, one trait is passed to another bacteria. In [blank_start]vertical[blank_end] gene transfer, the whole genome is passed on.

Which classic experiment demonstrates horizontal gene transfer?

Which type of horizontal gene transfer involves a pilus used to make cell-to-cell contact?

Which statement describes transduction?

The uptake of naked short fragments of DNA by naturally transformable bacteria is a form of horizontal gene transfer called transduction.

In the lytic cycle, the virus uses the [blank_start]bacterial[blank_end] cellular machinery to assemble more bacteriophages. When the capsid is assembled, the intention is for it to contain it's own [blank_start]viral[blank_end] DNA. However, plastids from the [blank_start]cytosol[blank_end] containing [blank_start]bacterial DNA[blank_end] can be incorporated into the bacteriophage too. If this bacteriophage goes on to infect a different bacteria in a [blank_start]lysogenic[blank_end] cycle, the bacterial DNA from the first bacteria will be transferred to the second and [blank_start]incorporated[blank_end] into its DNA.