Pearson eText Genetic Analysis: An Integrated Approach -- Instant Access (Pearson+)
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Chapter 6, Problem 5P
Explain the importance of the following features in conjugating donor bacteria:
a. the origin of transfer
b. the conjugation pilus
c. homologous recombination
d. the relaxosome
e. relaxase
f. T strand DNA
g. pilin protein
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For bacteria that are F+, Hfr, F', and F- answer the following.
a. Describe the state of the F factor.
b. Which of these cells are donors? Which is the recipient?
c. Which of these donors can convert exconjugants to a donor state?
d. Which of these donors can transfer a donor gene to exconjugants?
e. Describe the results of conjugation (i.e., changes in the recipient and the exconjugant) that allow detection of the state of the F factor in a donor strain.
f. Describe a "partial diploid" and how it originates.
Some strains of Escherichia coli bacteria have acquired the ability to produce the harmful Shiga toxin, normally produced by Shigella dysenteriae. Which statements best explain why this occurs? Mark all that apply.
A. conjugation between two different species of bacteria allowed both strains of bacteria to express a virulence factor
B. transformation resulted in expression of a virulence factor
C. horizontal gene transfer between different species of bacteria
D. transduction of a specific gene resulted in expression of new traits
The following recombinants are recovered when
conjugation occurs between an a+d+g+ donor and an a
d'g recipient.
at dt g+= 84%
ad g+= 6%
at dgt = 10%
ad g+
= less than 1%
Which gene is in the middle?
a
The genes are located too far apart on the bacterial
genome to determine which gene is in the middle.
d
Insufficient data are provided to answer this
question.
Chapter 6 Solutions
Pearson eText Genetic Analysis: An Integrated Approach -- Instant Access (Pearson+)
Ch. 6 - For bacteria that are F+, Hfr, F', and F-, perform...Ch. 6 - The flow diagram identifies relationships between...Ch. 6 - Conjugation between an Hfr cell and an F-cell does...Ch. 6 - Bacteria transfer genes by conjugation,...Ch. 6 - Explain the importance of the following features...Ch. 6 - Prob. 6PCh. 6 - Describe what is meant by the term site-specific...Ch. 6 - What is a prophage, and how is a prophage formed?Ch. 6 - How is the frequency of cotransduction related to...Ch. 6 - Describe the differences between genetic...
Ch. 6 - Among the mechanisms of gene transfer in bacteria,...Ch. 6 - What is lateral gene transfer? How might it take...Ch. 6 - Lateral gene transfer is thought to have played a...Ch. 6 - Prob. 14PCh. 6 - A 2013 CDC report identified the practice of...Ch. 6 - Hfr strains that differ in integrated F factor...Ch. 6 - Five Hfr strains from the same bacterial species...Ch. 6 - An interrupted mating study is carried out on Hfr...Ch. 6 - An Hfr strain with the genotype cys+leu+met+strS...Ch. 6 - A triple-auxotrophic strain of E. coli having the...Ch. 6 - Penicillin was first used in the 1940 s to treat...Ch. 6 - An attribute of growth behavior of eight...Ch. 6 - Synthesis of the amino acid histidine is a...Ch. 6 - The phage P1 is used as a generalized transducing...Ch. 6 - Prob. 25PCh. 6 - Prob. 26PCh. 6 - Look closely at the consolidated Hfr map and the...Ch. 6 - Fifty bacterial colonies are on a complete-medium...
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