Module 7 : Microbial Molecular Biology and Genetics

Lecture 9 : Bacterial Conjugation, Transduction and Transformation

 

Study Questions:

  1. 1. Explain: Crossing over

    2. 2. What is horizontal gene transfer?

    3. Explain: Bacterial conjugation

    4. Who discovered this phenomenon?

    5. What Bernard Davis was trying to prove?

    6. What is U-tube experiment?

    7. Does the conjugation benefits the bacterium? Justify

    8. What is the name of the conjugative plasmid………………?

    9. What is F-Plasmid and explain in detail about it structural parts and role of each part?

    10.What is relaxosome?

    11. What do you mean by Hfr? Explain in detail?

    12. Explain: transduction

    13. Does the conjugation and transduction are same?

    14. What are the types of transduction?

    15. Explain: generalized transduction and how it occurs.

    16. Explain: specialized transduction and how it works on bacterial cell.

    17. Define: transformation

    18. What is the difference between conjugation, transduction and transformation?