Microbial genetics

Microbial genetics

Gene expression

Jacob and Monad studied the lactose metabolism in E. Coli. Lactose is degraded to...}

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Mutation

Any gene can undergo mutation. Because a mutated gene has an altered nucleotide sequence, t...}

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Genetic code

Study of genes in a population is known as population genetics. In a given population there...}

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Plasmids

Conjugative plasmids can be transmitted by conjugation from one bacterium to another, such...}

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Transduction

Most bacteriophage the virulent phages,undergo a rapid lytic growth cycle in their host cel...}

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Conjugation

when Lederberg and Tatum did their experiments, they used poly auxotrophs ( mutants w...}

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DNA replication

After synthesizing the RNA primer, primase is required by DNA polymerase III. Each polymera...}

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Prokaryotic DNA

DNA is a genetic material,hence it carries all the hereditary information from one generati...}

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Ribonucleic Acid (RNA)

All the three types of RNA play a specific role in protein synthesis and hence in the expre...}

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Types of mutation

A mutation that arises due to change in morphology of chromosome is called chromosomal aber...}

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Result Frequency of mutation

The mutation occurs in both diploid as well as haploid organisms. Diploid organisms have tw...}

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Bacterial transformation

In 1928, an English health officer Griffith injected mice a mixture consisting of a few rou...}

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The regulation and expression of gene activity

The regulation of gene activity is best controlled at the level of gene transcription. Many...}

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