Which of the following is NOT a mechanism of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria?
Show answer and explanation
Correct answer: Binary fission
Binary fission is a method of asexual reproduction, not gene transfer between different cells. Horizontal gene transfer includes conjugation, transformation, and transduction.
Keep practicing
More Bacterial Recombination questions
- The initial discovery of bacterial conjugation was made by:
- Which type of transduction can transfer only a limited set of bacterial genes?
- Plasmids that carry antibiotic resistance genes and can be transferred by conjugation are called:
- Which condition is necessary for successful transformation?
- In generalized transduction, the phage particle contains:
- Which recombination process contributes most directly to the rapid spread of antibiotic resistance?