Transduction

Question 1

Is?

Answer 1

Bacterial DNA is transferred from one bacterium to another by bacteriophages

Question 2

Describe the process

Answer 2

bacteriophage infects bacterial cell;

at assembly, bacterial fragment is packaged into the capsid of the phage;

transducing phage;

infected bacterial cell lyse;

release newly formed bacteriophages;

transducing phages infected new bacterial cell;

inject donor’s bacterial DNA fragment into recipient cell;

pair up with a homologous region of the recipient cel’s ds circular DNA;

exchanging materials;

DNA replication occurs;

binary fission occurs