How does specialized transduction differ from regular transduction?
A) The prophage is not excised during specialized transduction.
B) The resulting bacteriophage from specialized transduction does not contain any viral DNA.
C) The resulting bacteriophage from specialized transduction cannot infect a new host cell.
D) The prophage in specialized transduction carries with it pieces of the host chromosomal DNA.
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What does MDR mean?
A) Minimal drug resistance
B) Multi-directional radioactivity
C) Multi-drug-resistant
D) Map directed route
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Which of the following is NOT used by bacteria to acquire new genetic material?
A) Conjugation
B) Transformation
C) Crossing over
D) Transduction
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How can hospital personnel prevent the spread of resistant Enterococcus faecium throughout the hospital?
A) Hospital staff should wear shoe covers for the duration of their shift.
B) Hospital staff should never serve raw fruit and salads to patients.
C) Hospital personnel should wash their hands when entering and leaving a patient’s room.
D) Hospital staff should wear masks when entering a patient’s room.
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What term is used to describe bacterial cells that can naturally take up DNA from their environment?
A) Auxotrophs
B) Hfr cells
C) Electroporated cells
D) Competent cells
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At which point does a recipient cell become an F+ cell?
A) Fusion of the cell membranes
B) Attachment of the sex pilus
C) Transfer of the single-stranded F factor
D) Pulling of donor and recipient cells together
E) Formation of the complementary strand of the F factor
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What is the key difference between donor cells and recipient cells?
A) Cell membranes
B) Size
C) A chromosome
D) An F plasmid
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What is required by an F- cell to become an F+ cell?
A) An F- cell to be a recipient
B) F plasmid
C) Conjugation pilus
D) F+ chromosome
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Ribosomes contain which of the following?
A) tRNA
B) rRNA
C) mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA are all found as part of the ribosome.
D) mRNA
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What cellular macromolecule is the fertility factor comprised of?
A) Nucleic acid
B) Lipid
C) Carbohydrate
D) Protein
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