Bacterial Transformation - Page 2
Questions
- What does bacterial transformation involve?
- What does transformation involve in bacteria?
- What is the difference between transformation and conjunction of bacteria?
- How does transduction differ from transformation?
- How do bacteria use transformation?
- What is the process of bacterial transformation?
- Human genes can be transferred into bacteria through genetic engineering. Why might scientists want to do this?
- The bacteria a colony are unable to perform conjugation. How would this hurt the bacterial colony's chance for survival?
- What process is used to add foreign DNA to a bacterial cell?
- We take antibiotic medicines to fight bacterial diseases. Why are antibiotics effective against bacteria but not against our own cells?
- What are the filaments called that help some bacteria stick to surfaces and exchange plasmids through conjugation?
- Could bateria be biocatalysts, such as the lactic acid bacteria that produce lactic acid?
- Which bacterial stucture below is used to transfer genetic material from cell-to-cell?
- What are the bacteria which show swarming type of motility??
- A bacterium with completely non-radioactive DNA was allowed to replicate in a radioactive medium for three generation what % of the bacteria should contain radioactive DNA?
- Are there any ethical concerns in bacterial transformation?
- What term describes an organism whose genes have been changed?
- What is the function of pili?
- The lethal dose of tetanus toxin (#M_text(r) = "150 000"#) is 2.5 ng/kg. How many molecules per cell does it take for the tetanus toxin to be lethal to humans?
- What part of the bacteria cell helps it stick to surfaces?