MIC 205 Final questions with correct answers

Bacteriophage CORRECT ANSWER A virus that infects bacteria Cancer CORRECT ANSWER any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division Generalize transduction CORRECT ANSWER Type of horizontal transfer that occur when a phage carries a random piece of bacterial DNA; the phage acquires that DNA when a packaging error occurs during the assembly of phage particles Latent infection CORRECT ANSWER viral infection in which the viral genome is present but not active, so viral particles are not being produced Lysogen CORRECT ANSWER a bacterium that carries phage DNA (a prophage) integrated into its genome Lysogenic conversion CORRECT ANSWER a change in the properties of a bacterium conferred by a prophage Lytic infection CORRECT ANSWER viral infection of a host cell with a subsequent production of more viral particles and lysis of the cell Positive sense RNA , negative sense RNA, and ambisense RNA CORRECT ANSWER Positive: a virus whose genetic information consists of a single strand of RNA that is the positive sense strand that encodes mRNA and protein Negative: genomes made of single-stranded RNA that acts as complementary strands from mRNA, synthesized via RNA-dependent kinase