MICROBIAL RECOMBINATION AND GENE TRANSFER QUIZ

Hepatitis B virus

All of these

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Human immunodeficiency virus

None of these

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

Plasmid

Insertion sequence

None of these

Transposon

viral replication within a genome

None of these

general recombination

site-specific integration of transposable elements

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

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 and plasmid is integrated

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

None of these

generalized phage transduction

natural transformation

conjugal transfer by a self-transmissible plasmid

Lysogen

Lisosome

Medisome

Episome

general recombination

mutagenic recombination

site-specific recombination

replicative recombination

fermentation of lactose

production of enterotoxin

all of these

resistance to antibiotics

Replicative recombination

Site-specific recombination

Mutagenic recombimation

General recombination