Genetics Of The Bacteria And Their Viruses Tutorial

1. Why viruses can be categorized as the living and the non-living organism? 2. Sketch a diagram showing the integration of DNA molecule into the chromosome of E Coli with explanations. 3. Compare and contrast between plasmid and episome. 4. Assume that you have just demonstrated genetic recombination (e.g. when a strain of genotype a b+ is present with a strain of genotype a+ b, some recombination genotypes, a+b+ and a b, are formed) in a previously unstudied species of bacteria. How would you determine whether the observed recombination was resulted from transformation, conjugation, or transduction? 5. How Griffith discovered transformation in Streptococcus pneumonia in 1928? 6. Describe bacterial conjugations in the states of (i) autonomous, and (ii) integrated. 7. Describe the circumstance in which dbio transducing chromosome can be produced. 8. What are the basic differences between generalized transduction and specialized transduction? 9. Describe how viruses and bacteria transfer genetic material between cells and the role of this process in biotechnology.