Supplementary Chapter Flashcards
Mobile genes include?
- transposons
- plasmids
- viruses
Transposons
Integrated-part of a genome
Plasmids
Autonomously, have own origin of replication
Viruses
Both, they are episomes
Viruses are all Made up of ______ and _________; some Also have ______ _________(hides from immune system)
Nucleic acids, proteins, lipid bylayer
Who discovered viruses?
Wendell Stanley, tobacco plants infected with TMV , crystallize
Barbara McClintock studied______, and discovered _________..
Corn, transposons
Genome
How viruses replicate, set of genetic instructions
2 types of replication?
Autonomous and integrated
Autonomous replication
Independent of what rest of cell does
Integrated replication
Must be part of a genome
Conjugation
Plasmids are passed from one bacterium to another
Conjugation happens through what?
The pillus
Plasmids can contain ________ _______ (bad for ____, good for _____)
Resistance genes, us, bacteria
Tumor viruses contain _______
Oncogenes