Exam 6: Genetic Analysis and Mapping in Bacteria and Bacteriophages

______are bacteria that can grow on minimal medium and are assumed to be wild type.

Once an exogenous foreign piece of DNA is in the bacterial cell,it is incorporated into the bacterial genome through ______.

When a bacteriophage genome incorporates itself into the chromosome of the host,that phage genome is referred to as an______.

Jacob,Wollman,and others developed a linkage map of E.coli that is based on time.What form of recombination is involved in generating a linkage map based on time?

The clearing made by bacteriophages in a "lawn" of bacteria on an agar plate is called a______ .

Describing bacterial conjugation,which of the following matings is most likely to result in a change from F^- to F⁺?

In Seymour Benzer's studies,if he mixed two RII phage together co- infection studies in K12 and the resulting phage always failed to lyse K12______ .

Analyze the following growth of a bacterial colony. What is the genotype of the bacterium?

______can initiate chromosome transfer from one E.coli to another.