Ch 16

Question 1

Mutations

Answer 1

heritable changes in DNA sequence

Question 2

recombination

Answer 2

process in which one or more nucleic acids are rearranged to produce a new nucleotide sequence

Question 3

vertical gene transfer

Answer 3

transfer of genes from parent to child

Question 4

horizontal gene transfer

Answer 4

genes from one independent, mature organism to another

Question 5

transformation

Answer 5

DNA acquired directly from environment

Question 6

conjugation

Answer 6

DNA transferred from a donor cell

Question 7

transduction

Answer 7

DNA transported in a bacteriophage

Question 8

transformation, conjugation, and transduction are forms of ___ ____ _____

Answer 8

horizontal gene transfer (HGT)

Question 9

bacterial transformation is the

Answer 9

uptake of free DNA from the environment

Question 10

transposons

Answer 10

mobile genetic elements

Question 11

the F factor is the ____ factor

Answer 11

fertility

Question 12

sex pilus

Answer 12

used to establish contact between cells

Question 13

F+ cell has ____ which F- does not

Answer 13

sex pilus