MICROBIAL RECOMBINATION AND GENE TRANSFER QUIZ

Metabolic plasmid

None of these

F factors

Virulence plasmid

Transformation

Conjugation

Transduction

Mutation

transformation

mutation

transduction

conjugation

All of these

Human immunodeficiency virus

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Hepatitis B virus

Another name for a protoplast

Small, circular DNA molecules that can exist independently of chromosomes commonly found in bacteria

A complex membrane structure that covers the chromosome of bacteria

None of these

by transduction

by transription

by transformation

simultaneous infection of a host cell by two viruses with homologous chromosomes

Transduction

Transformation

Translation

Conjugation

viral replication within a genome

general recombination

site-specific integration of transposable elements

None of these

fermentation of lactose

all of these

production of enterotoxin

resistance to antibiotics

an IS element integrates with another IS element with the help of a plasmid

a small deletion occurs in the transposase gene of an IS element

two IS elements integrate into a chromosome with only a small distance separating them

a small deletion occurs in the transposase gene of an IS element and plasmid is integrated