Bacteria’s Reproductive Possibilities Sexual & Asexual
1. Asexual Binary Fission Two IDENTICAL copies of cell Advantage? Numbers!
2. Genetic recombinant Reproductive methods: Conjugation (sexual) Exchange of plasmid from one bacterial cell to another Variation Extension of PILI
Transformation Our LAB!! Bacteria pick and utilize plasmids from surroundings
Transduction Introduction of foreign DNA particle by a VIRUS
Transduction Animation Advantage of sexual reproduction? Introduces VARIATION Very beneficial to organisms We saw this with mutations Share beneficial traits/genes Who survives to pass on traits? Explains MULTI-DRUG resistant microbes