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| Why are plasmids beneficial to prokaryotes. |
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| They are resistant and can transfer that resistance to other species. Can form a capsule making it more resistant. These plasmids can eat hydrocarbons. They can change pigment. They can be used to produce antibiotics. |
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| Recombination happens between cells in the ____ ____. |
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| DNA goes through transcription and translation to form what? |
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| Intervening regions of DNA are known as. |
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| An _____ is a nucleic acid sequence that is represented in the mature form of an RNA molecule |
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| The regulatory gene is controlled by a ______ and an operator. |
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| RNA polymerase binding and start transcription |
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| What does the operator do? |
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| Turns the promoter on or off. |
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| What does an active repressor protein do to an operator? |
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| Stops it from turning of the promoter. |
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| Why would a cell use glucose before lactose? |
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| The cell has to break down lactose into a usable glucose. Glucose is already a ready source of energy. |
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| Horizontal gene transfer is commonly known as? |
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| Avery McCarty Mcleod discovered? |
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| Transforming material was DNA not protein. |
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| F+ cells can perform what functions? |
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| Transfer DNA, and make sex pilus, but they cannot accept DNA |
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| when would a resistance plasmid be essential? |
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| To protect itself from a vaccine. |
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| Why are plasmids beneficial metabolically? |
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| They can transfer genetic material allowing other cells to use food sources they previously could not use. |
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