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Module 5 - Bacterial Genetic Analysis and Manipulation Flashcards

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1
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Which scientist wondered whether sexual crossing/genetic exchange occurred in bacteria?

A

Joshua Lederberg

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What type of mutants can ONLY grow if the growth medium contains the appropriate amino acids or vitamins?

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Nutritional mutants

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3
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How to describe this condition: met- strain needs methionine but NOT proline to grow in the medium

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met- pro+

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4
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How to describe this condition: pro- strain requires proline but NOT methionine to grow in the medium

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pro- met+

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5
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What kind of chromosomes do bacterial cells exhibit (GENERALLY)

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Single, circular

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6
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What structures are known as smaller, circular DNA molecules that replicate independently of the chromosome?

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Plasmids

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7
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What are accessory functions that plasmids contain genes for?

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  • Antibiotic resistance

- Degradation of toxic substances

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8
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What is the term used to describe the hereditary material of a bacterial cell, including BOTH the chromosome(s) and any existing plasmids?

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Genome

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9
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What is bacteria Streptomyces responsible for? What kind of chromosome does it exhibit?

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  • Producing soil bacteria

- Linear chromosome

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What is bacteria Borrelia burgdorfer responsible for? What kind of chromosome does it exhibit?

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  • Causative agent of human Lyme’s disease

- Linear chromosome

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11
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What is bacteria Agrobacterium tumefaciens responsible for? What kind of chromosome does it exhibit?

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  • Plant tumor

- Circular chromosome, linear chromosome, and 2 large circular plasmids

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12
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What is the term use to classify each chromosome and plasmid?

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Replicon

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In cells containing plasmids, each cell has a controlled number of plasmid numbers known as the …?

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Copy number

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14
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What makes plasmids incompatible?

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When they cannot exist stably within a population of cells

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What happens during plasmid incompatibility?

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Cell loses count of how many copies of each of the two plasmids exist within the cell

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What is the term used to describe the typical or representative characteristics of a species?

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Wild-type strain

17
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What is Sinorhizobium meliloti?

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  • Nitrogen-fixing bacteria

- Most commonly studied wild-type strain

18
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A cell or strain possessing a mutation, or a change in its DNA sequence relative to the comparable sequence in the wild-type strain is called?

A

A mutant

19
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What is another term for “form of the gene”?

A

Allele

20
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What is the term that describes a loss in gene function, regaining of function of previously mutated gene, or modification of gene function (results in phenotypic change)

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Mutation

21
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What are two other ways that mutations arise besides spontaneously?

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  • UV light

- DNA-damaging chemicals

22
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How are genes named?

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Three-letter, lowercase, italicized

23
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What is the term that describes the alleles within an organism?

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Genotype

24
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What method of detecting mutants involves plating bacteria on a selective growth medium that only allows strains with a particular combination of phenotypic characteristics to grow and form a colony?

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Phenotypic Selection

25
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What method of detecting mutants does not prevent the growth of cells with a wild-type phenotype rather all cells form colonies under the tested conditions?
- Usually necessary for recovering mutants for which there are no identified conditions under which they can grow

A

Screening

26
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What method of detecting mutants are colonies lifted from one plate using a piece of sterile velvet cloth and then deposited onto a fresh plate?

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Replica plating

27
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What question did Esther Lederberg’s experiment prove?

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Can fitness increase through mutation without a direct selection for that that?

28
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How did Salvador Luria and Max Delbruck further investigate whether mutations originate randomly and spontaneously?

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Investigated the generation of resistance in E. coli to infection with the bacteriophase T1

29
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What is the term given to bacterial proteins that cleave DNA at specific sequences?

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Restriction enzymes

30
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Short DNA sequence, usually of 4, 6, or 8 base pairs are also known as?

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Restriction site

31
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What does the restriction site recognize?

A

Palindromic site

32
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What is term to describe reverse and put together

A

Ligate

33
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What makes the separate pieces of DNA easy to ligate?

A

Sticky ends

34
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What is the term to describe a cut somewhere in the middle of a chain

A

Endonuclease

35
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What results after ligation and annealing?

A

2 new recombinant DNA

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