Genetics and Growth of Prokaryotic Cells

Question 1

What promotes a bacterium’s ability to increase its genetic variability and adapt itself to antibiotics?

Answer 1

Conjugation and Transduction

Question 2

How to bacterial cells reproduce?

Answer 2

By binary fission, an asexual process.

Question 3

What methods of bacterial recombination results in new phenotypic characteristics?

Answer 3

Transformation, Transduction (infection with a bacteriophage)

Question 4

What does binary fission and cytokinesis have in common?

Answer 4

Both involve the pinching of the cellular membrane as a prelude to the cell’s division into two daughter cells.

Question 5

In what way is conjugation only to occur?

Answer 5

Conjugation can only occur from an F+ cell to an F- cell.