What is transduction?
Q: What is transduction?
A: Transduction is the process by which genetic information is transferred between bacteria by viruses, and how foreign DNA is introduced into another cell via a viral vector.
Q: Who discovered bacteriophages' ability to transfer genetic information between bacteria?
A: Joshua Lederberg and his graduate student Norton Zinder showed in 1952 that bacteriophages could transfer genetic information between bacteria in Salmonella.
Q: Why is transduction important for understanding antibiotic resistance?
A: Transduction explains how bacteria of different species can gain resistance to the same antibiotic very quickly.
Q: What is a common tool used by molecular biologists to introduce a foreign gene into a host cell's genome?
A: Transduction is a common tool used by molecular biologists to introduce a foreign gene into a host cell's genome.
Q: How do bacteriophages reproduce?
A: When bacteriophages infect a bacterial cell, they usually reproduce by using the replicational, transcriptional, and translation machinery of the host bacterial cell to make many complete viral particles, including the viral DNA or RNA and the protein coat.
Q: What errors in the bacteriophage reproduction process can result in the virus carrying over DNA from one bacterium to another?
A: Errors in the bacteriophage reproduction process can result in the virus carrying over DNA from one bacterium to another.
Q: How does transduction occur through a viral vector?
A: Transduction through a viral vector occurs when the virus introduces foreign DNA into another cell.
