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1
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Fastidious Organisms

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Very Hard to grow in lab culture due to high requirements

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2
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Minimum requirements for Growth of microbe

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Carbon Source, Nitrogen Source, Energy Source, Water, Ions

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3
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Autotrophs

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Need CO2

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4
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Heterotrophs

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Need Organic Carbons

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5
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Major Essential Elements

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Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Iron, Sulfur, etc

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6
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Some bacteria require _____ and _____ to be oxidized for ATP

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Iron and Sulfur

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7
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Some bacteria require minor elements to act as ________ for enzymes

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Cofactors

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8
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Obligate Aerobes

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Must have oxygen to survive

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9
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Obligate anaerobe

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Cannot have oxygen due to buildup of toxic radical oxygen compounds

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10
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Facultative Anaerobes

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Can have air, or not. Either is fine.

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11
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Catabolism

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Breakdown of large molecules to smaller molecules for metabolism

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12
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Anabolism

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Build small molecules up to larger ones. Need energy to do so.

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13
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Oxidative Phosphorylation

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Need electron transport chains to allow for aerobic respiration

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14
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Substrate level phosphorylation

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The internal change of ADP to ATP by moving phosphate compounds around

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15
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Anaerobic Respiration

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Use of non-oxygen compounds to form energy. Fe+2 can be used as an electron acceptor

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16
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Most pathogenic microbes need _________

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Sugar, proteins and fats

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17
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Some Pathogenic microbes need _________

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ONly inorganic nutrients and a Carbon source while others have extensive frowth requirements

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18
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Some microbes are difficult or impossible to grow __________

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in vitro

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19
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Glycolysis yields

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2 atp, 2 NADH+ H+, and 2 pyruvate

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20
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Fermentation requires ______ and ________ to be used

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NADH and Pyruvate

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21
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The citrate cycle or Krebs cycle yields

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2 CO2, 3 NADH, 1 FADH2, and 1GTP

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22
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Citrate cycle is a _________ pathway

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Amphibolic

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23
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Oxidative Phosphorylation of NADH yields __________

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3 ATP

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24
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Oxidative Phosphorylation of FADH2 yields _________

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2 ATP

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25
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About _______ ATP can be generated from glucose

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38

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26
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Oxygen is the major electron acceptor of _________

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Oxidative Phosphorylation

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27
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NO3-, SO4-2, CO2 can be _________ in some bacteria

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Electron Acceptors

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28
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RNA Synthesis is called ________ and DNA is the template

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Transcription

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29
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Protein synthesis is called ________ and mRNA is the template

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Translation

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30
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DNA synthesis is called _______ and DNA is the template

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Replication

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31
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RNA dependent RNA polymerase

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Transcriptase

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32
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RNA-Dependent DNA polymerase

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Reverse Transcriptase

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33
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Transcription requirements

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DNA template, RNA polymerase with sigma factor (dont have to have but increases efficiency)

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34
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Polycistronic

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Codes for more than one peptide

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35
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Operons

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Cluster of genes that contain a promoter and more than one protein gene that is transcribed as a unit (all of none made)

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36
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Inducible Operons-

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Must be activated by inducers like Lactose operon

37
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Repressible operons

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Transcribed continually until deactivated by repressers like Tryptophan Operon

38
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mRNA contains sequences of codons that code for _________ in a peptide

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Amino Acids

39
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AUG is the ________ codon

40
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Peptidyl Transferase-

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Forms peptide bond

41
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Translocase-

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Moves to next codon

42
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Translation occurs at _____ Amino Acids/sec

43
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Translation occurs from _________ direction

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5’ to 3’

44
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Proteins are made as soon as ribosomes bind ________

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5’ end of mRNA

45
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Quorom Sensing-

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Biofilm communication method that is mediated through Agr proteins.

46
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DNA replication is ________

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Semiconservative

47
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DNA replication requires-

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Topoisomerases, Helicase, DNA binding proteins, primosome or primase, DNA polymerase III, DNA polymerase I, and DNA ligase

48
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DNA replication requires around _________ minutes to complete

49
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Once DNA synthesis is initiated it is completed even if ________

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Nutrients are depleted

50
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Helicase-

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Breaks the DNA apart

51
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Primase-

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Primes the DNA to synthesize RNA at 5’ end

52
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DNA polymerase III and I

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Primary DNA pilymerase that adds on nucleotides

53
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Topoisomerases-

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Precede the replication fork and unwind the DNA to relax tension

54
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Replication occurs at the ________

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Replication fork

55
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origin of replication-

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Where the Replication process begins

56
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Bacterial DNA replication is __________

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Bidirectional (occur at both the leading and lagging strand)

57
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Lag phase of bacterial growth-

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Adapting to the medium

58
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Exponential or Log Phase of Bacterial Growth

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Cells dividing at constant rate. 2^n where n is the number of generations. (Approx. 30 minute generation times)

59
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Stationary phase of bacterial growth

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Low nutrients or oxygen or increase in toxin. Plateau in graph

60
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Decline phase of bacterial growth

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Death and Lysis, some cells may survive

61
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Bacterial cell growth can be measured in fluid by ________

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Optical density measurements of turbidity

62
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Substitution Mutations- Transitions

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(pur->pur or Pyr->pyr)

63
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Substitution Mutations- Transversions

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(pur->pyr or pyr->pur)

64
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Silent Mutation-

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No change in amino acid

65
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Missense and conservative point mutations-

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Change 1 amino acid and protein is still functional. Does effect ability of protein

66
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Nonsense Mutation-

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Stop Codon

67
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Frameshift Mutation-

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Insertion or deletion . VERY SEVERE!

68
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Null or lethal mutation-

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Non-functional Protein

69
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Spontaneous mutation-

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Polymerase mistakes

70
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Mutagens and Nucleotide analogs-

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Substitution of nucleotides

71
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Direct DNA repair-

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T-T or altered base repair such as with photolyase

72
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Excision Repair-

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Segment removed and replaced

73
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Post replication repair-

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Recombination when both strands are damaged. Rare.

74
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SOS response-

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15 genes induced

75
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Error prone repair-

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Rapid effort to replace damaged sequences with random pieces of DNA before cell dies

76
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Transformation-

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Released dsDNA or plasmids taken up by bacteria

77
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Transduction-

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Use of bacteriophages to inject genetic sequences into bacterial genome

78
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Transformation is natural in ________

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B. Subtilis, H. Influenza, N. gonorrhea, S. pneumoniae

79
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Chemicals and electricity can enhance _______

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Transformation

80
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_________ transfer the DNA into the bacteria in transformation

81
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Plasmids can carry _________

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Abx resistance genes, Toxin genes, enzymes, etc

82
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Plasmids are self-_______

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Replicating

83
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Conjugation-

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Sexual genetic transfer by use of a sex pilus and F plasmid

84
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Transposition

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Have transposable elements called transposons that are mobile within the cell. These transfer one DNA molecule to another such as nucleoid to plasmid, plasmid to nucleoid, etc

85
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F factor codes for ______

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Fertility factor

86
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Hfr-

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High frequency recombination

87
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Pathogenicity Islands-

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Transposons with virulence genes

88
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Transposons contain-

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A central-region coding for resistance or toxin flanked by two insertion sequences for the genomic DNA

89
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Competant Cells-

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Have been treated to take up plasmids very readily. Treated with salts usually

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