![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![Microbiology, Fifth Edition](/sites/dl/free/0072320419/title/PRESCOTT5E02SP.jpg) Microbiology, 5/e Lansing M Prescott,
Augustana College Donald A Klein,
Colorado State University John P Harley,
Eastern Kentucky University
Microbial Recombination and Plasmids
Chapter ObjectivesAfter reading this
chapter you should be able to:
- discuss the nature of procaryotic recombination
- distinguish horizontal gene transfer from vertical gene transfer
- compare and contrast conjugation, transformation, and transduction
- discuss how transposable elements can move genetic material between bacterial
chromosomes and within a chromosome to cause changes in the genome and the phenotype
of the organism
- discuss the use of conjugation, transformation, and transduction to map the
bacterial genome
- discuss the methods used to map viral genes
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