ESSENTIALS OF GENETICS-MODIFIED ACCESS
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Chapter 8, Problem 2CS
CASE STUDY | To treat or not to treat
A 4-month-old infant had been running a moderate fever for 36 hours, and a nervous mother made a call to her pediatrician. Examination and testing revealed no outward signs of infection or cause of the fever. The anxious mother asked the pediatrician about antibiotics, but the pediatrician recommended watching the infant carefully for two days before making a decision. He explained that decades of rampant use of antibiotics in medicine and agriculture had caused a worldwide surge in bacteria that are now resistant to such drugs. He also said that the reproductive behavior of bacteria allows them to exchange antibiotic resistance traits with a wide range of other disease-causing bacteria, and that many strains are now resistant to multiple antibiotics. The physician's information raises several interesting questions.
Where do bacteria carry antibiotic resistance genes, and how are they exchanged?
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ESSENTIALS OF GENETICS-MODIFIED ACCESS
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CASE STUDY | To treat or not to treat
A...Ch. 8 - CASE STUDY | To treat or not to treat A...Ch. 8 - Prob. 3CSCh. 8 - Prob. 4CSCh. 8 - HOW DO WE KNOW? In this chapter, we have focused...Ch. 8 -
CONCEPT QUESTION
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3. Distinguish among the three modes of...Ch. 8 - With respect to F+ and F- bacterial matings, (a)...Ch. 8 - List all of the differences between F+ × F– and...Ch. 8 - Describe the basis for chromosome mapping in the...
Ch. 8 - Why are the recombinants produced from an Hfr × F–...Ch. 8 - Describe the origin of F' bacteria and...Ch. 8 -
9. Describe the mechanism of transformation.
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10. The bacteriophage genome consists primarily...Ch. 8 - Prob. 11PDQCh. 8 - In the plaque assay, what is the precise origin of...Ch. 8 -
13. In the plaque assay, exactly what makes up a...Ch. 8 - A plaque assay is performed beginning with 1.0 mL...Ch. 8 -
15. Describe the difference between the lytic...Ch. 8 - Prob. 16PDQCh. 8 -
17. Explain the observations that led Zinder and...Ch. 8 -
18. Describe the execution of and rationale...Ch. 8 - If a single bacteriophage infects one E. coli cell...Ch. 8 - A phage-infected bacterial culture was subjected...
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