Chapter 7: Recombination and Mapping in Bacteria and Bacteriophages

Concepts

• Bacteria mutate spontaneously and grow at an exponential rate
• Conjugation is one means of genetic recombination in bacteria
• F factors are plasmids
• Transformation is another process leading to genetic recombination in bacteria
• Bacteriophages are bacterial viruses
• Transduction is virus-mediated bacterial DNA transfer
• The Lederberg-Zinder experiment
• Bacteriophages undergo intergenic recombination
• Intragenic recombination also occurs in phage T4