Questions #2

"jumping" into a gene and disrupting its function

Can be specialized or general Lysogenic or lytic phage

Uptake naked DNA fragments or plasmid Requires a competent recipient cell

Involves a sex pilus F factor High frequency recombinants

Horizontal gene transfer can occur via _________.

transduction is made possible by an error in the lysogenic life cycle of phages that insert their genomes into a specific site in the host chromosome.

Hfr strains contain the F factor integrated into their ________, rather than in the __________.

Choose the event below that does not occur during bacterial conjugation.

During bacterial conjugation, plasmid replication occurs in _________.

If one donor cell is mixed with 20 recipient cells, eventually ________ cells will become donors.

The pilus is found on both the donor and recipient cells.

Plasmids are small pieces of DNA that may carry genetic information for antibiotic resistance.