Chapter Eight

Question 1

Transfer of DNA from a donor to a recipient cell by a bacteriophage

Answer 1

transduction

Question 2

Transfer of DNA from a donor to a recipient as naked DNA in solution

Answer 2

transformation

Question 3

Two daughter cells are most likely to inherit which one of the following from the parent cell?

Answer 3

a change in a nucleotide in DNA

Question 4

Which of the following is not a method of horizontal gene transfer?

Answer 4

binary fission

Question 5

A sequence of nucleotides in DNA that codes for a functional product refers to a(n)

Answer 5

a gene

Question 6

What carries the coded information for making specific proteins from DNA to ribosomes?

Answer 6

messenger RNA (mRNA)

Question 7

A group of three nucleotides is called a(n)

Answer 7

codon

Question 8

Of the 64 codons, how many are sense codons?

Answer 8

61 sense codons

Question 9

A bacteriophage is involved in

Answer 9

genetic exchange

Question 10

The process in which bacterial DNA is transferred from a donor cell to a recipient cell inside a bacteriophage is called

Answer 10

transduction

Question 11

What did Griffith’s experiment demonstrate?

Answer 11

transformation