Bacteria can pass on genetic information by transduction, transformation and con
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Bacteria can pass on genetic information by transduction, transformation and conjugation. a. b. c. What does competency' mean? What is the difference between F plasmid and F' plasmid? What is the difference between general transduction and specialized transduction? There are many differences between viruses that infect eukaryotes and viruses that infect prokaryotes, especially in how they enter and infect a host cell. Give FIVE differences between these two viral types. How do you think viruses evolved? a. b.Explanation / Answer
a) competency - is the ability to do something sucessfully or efficiently. bacterial competency is the ability to take up exogenous DNA from the environment.
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c) Movement of any piece of chromosomal DNA from one bacterium to another using a bacteriophage to carry the DNA is called generalised transduction.
Specialised transducton is the Movement of a specific fragment of chromosomal DNA from one bacterium to another. The fragment of DNA is usually incorporated and replicated as part of bacteriophage DNA. Because of this, the specific fragment of chromosomal DNa can be amplified by growing a large umber of the phage
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