General Terms (Microbiology)

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Mobile genetic elements; jumping genes; DNA pieces that move readily from one site to another

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Tranposons

Question 2

Obligate intracellular but acellular parasites of plants; naked RNA; no human diseases

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Viroids

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The cellular of the protein PrPc which is susceptible to protease and soluble in detergent

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Prions

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Contains many hydrolytic enzymes, including b lactamases

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Periplasm

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Genes for antibiotic resistance and toxins

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Plasmid

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Zero growth rate phases

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Lag and stationary

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Movement of genes from inactive (storage) sites into active sites of transcription e.g. Relapsing fever of Borrelia Recurrentis

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Programmed Rearrangement

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DNA transferred from one bacterium to another

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Conjugation

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DNA transferred by a virus from one cell to another

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Transduction