The Basics

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Medical Microbiology (Gene Transfer) Quiz on The Basics, created by gina_evans0312 on 08/02/2014.
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Question 1

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Bacteria can lose and acquire genes to/from the environment using mobile elements that can be shared between species
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 2

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What is a Pan-Genome?
Answer
  • The sum of all core and accessory genes of a species
  • The sum of all core and accessory genes of an individual
  • The sum of all core and accessory genes of a strain

Question 3

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What is the main pathological effect of Horizontal Gene Transfer?
Answer
  • Can make non-pathogen strains pathogenic
  • Excess DNA damages local cells
  • Release of DNA diverts bacterial energy to virulence

Question 4

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What is described here- Bacteriophages that have been incorporated into the genome
Answer
  • Prophages
  • Metaphages
  • Intephages

Question 5

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Integrated DNA can be stabilised by homologous recombination of the new DNA
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 6

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Which other methods allow the new DNA strands to integrate?
Answer
  • Persistence of the episome (i,e, freely replicating plasmids)
  • Integrations by the bacteriophage
  • Illegitimate incorporation (i.e. Ds break repair)
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