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What are the ways in which bacteria can acquire foreign DNA?
What are the ways in which bacteria can acquire foreign DNA?
- Transformation, transduction, conjugation (correct)
- Uptake of plasmids, transfer of bacteriophages, mating-like process
- Mutation of genes, acquisition of foreign resistance genes
- Uptake of naked DNA, transfer of plasmids, replication independently
What is the impact of antibiotic use according to the text?
What is the impact of antibiotic use according to the text?
- Primarily limited to the patient using them
- Mainly impacts agriculture and crops
- Not limited to the patient but also affects the global community (correct)
- Only affects animals and pets
Where can antimicrobial resistance plasmids be transferred between bacteria?
Where can antimicrobial resistance plasmids be transferred between bacteria?
- Exclusively in aquaculture environments
- Primarily in agricultural fields
- Only in hospital settings
- Under a wide variety of conditions (correct)
What is a plasmid in bacteria?
What is a plasmid in bacteria?
How can bacterial antibiotic resistance result?
How can bacterial antibiotic resistance result?
Antimicrobial resistance only impacts the patient taking the medications and not the global community.
Antimicrobial resistance only impacts the patient taking the medications and not the global community.
Plasmids are essential for the survival of bacteria.
Plasmids are essential for the survival of bacteria.
Bacterial antibiotic resistance can result from the mutation of genes involved in normal physiological processes and cellular structures.
Bacterial antibiotic resistance can result from the mutation of genes involved in normal physiological processes and cellular structures.
Transfer of DNA from one bacterium to another by bacteriophages is called transformation.
Transfer of DNA from one bacterium to another by bacteriophages is called transformation.
Antimicrobial resistance plasmids cannot be transferred between bacteria under a wide variety of conditions.
Antimicrobial resistance plasmids cannot be transferred between bacteria under a wide variety of conditions.
