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Bacterial Transformation: Mechanism

September 21, 2013 Acharya Tankeshwar 1

Bacterial Transformation is one of the three horizontal gene transfer mechanism found in Bacterial cells.  The other two horizontal gene transfer mechanism are conjugation (Transfer of F Plasmid & Transfer of Chromosomal DNA)  and transduction […]

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Conjugation: Transfer of Chromosomal DNA by High Frequency Recombination (HFr) Strain

September 12, 2013 Acharya Tankeshwar 2

The F+ strain which contains plasmid gene as an episome (i.e.  F plasmid becomes integrated into the host cell genome at one of the several possible sites chromosomal gene) induce more than thousand times the number of […]

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Mechanism of Conjugation in Bacteria: The transfer of F Plasmid

September 12, 2013 Acharya Tankeshwar 1

Conjugation is one the three mechanism of DNA exchange between bacteria, the other being transformation and transduction. Conjugation occurs between two living cells, involves cell to cell contact, and requires mobilization of either a plasmid […]

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Gene Transfer Mechanism in Bacteria and It’s types

September 12, 2013 Acharya Tankeshwar 0

In bacterial population DNA can be transferred from one organism to another by the horizontal transfer mechanism (apart from vertical inheritance). The DNA thus transferred by lateral/horizontal method can be stably incorporated in the recipient […]

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Specialized transduction: Mechanism

September 12, 2013 Acharya Tankeshwar 0

In Transduction, DNA is transferred from one cell to another through the agency of viruses.  Genetic transfer of host gene by bacteriophage occurs in two ways-Generalized transduction and specialized transduction. Specialized transduction occurs only in […]

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Generalized transduction: Mechanism

September 12, 2013 Acharya Tankeshwar 1

In Transduction, DNA is transferred from one cell to another through the agency of viruses.  Genetic transfer of host gene by bacteriophage occurs in two ways-generalized transduction and specialized transduction. In generalized transduction, virtually any […]

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