02/10/16

Classwork: Unseen Life on Earth: An Introduction to Microbiology Episode 5: Microbial Evolution Answer these Questions on your own paper What is vertical gene transmission? What are the methods of bacterial (horizontal) gene transmission? What types of traits can bacteria acquire horizontally? Where does the DNA come from during transformation? What bacterium is being used to fight cassava mosaic virus? What is the desired outcome of this work? Why is it important to include a control plate with the transformation experiment? What are some of the impacts to humans of genetic manipulations? Lecture Ch. 18 Bacteria and Viruses Regulation of genes in Bacteria Homework: Reading: Ch 17-20 Reading guides Wikipages In Partners will assign pages tomorrow