Lab 9 Quiz (for 11/6)

Question 1

Bacteria
(General Prokaryotic Cell)

Everything that is boxed = know for quiz

Answer 1

• no nucleus
• one chromosome

Question 2

How do bacteria split?

Answer 2

binary fission (from one cell to two cells)

Question 3

Horizontal Gene Transfer

Answer 3

transferring genes between two bacterial cells of the same generation.

swapping DNA between the two daughter cells

Only bacteria! Humans can not do that!

Question 4

Transformation

Answer 4

Bacterial cell accepts and takes in pieces of DNA from its environment

Question 5

Conjugation

Two cells making contact

Answer 5

direct contact transmission of DNA from a donor cell to a recipient cell through a pilus (conjugation bridge)

Ex: a vampire bitting another person

Question 6

Shapes:
Coccus, Bacillus, Vibrio and Spirillum

Answer 6

Coccus = sphere
Bacillus = cigarette
Vibrio = curved rod
Spirillum = spiral (wine cork)