Microbiology Exam 2 Uiowa Knudtson - Arts Questions And Answers

What is lysogenic conversion? {Ans: when a bacterium acquires a new trait from its temperate phage}What are restriction fragments? {Ans: pieces of DNA produced by restriction endonuclease}What needs to be added before DNA polymerase III can add nucleotides? {Ans: an RNA primer}What are three STOP codons? {Ans: UAA UAG UGA}Where in the host cell are some DNA viruses replicated and assembled? {Ans: some enter the host cell's nucleus and are replicated and assembled there}What are introns? {Ans: sequences of bases on a gene that DO NOT code for a protein}