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    This document discusses several topics related to microbial genetics including plasmid replication and partitioning, mechanisms of genetic exchange like transformation, conjugation, and transduction. It describes plasmids, their types and functions, as well as how bacteria exchange genetic material through natural transformation, conjugation using Hfr and F' strains, and generalized and specialized transduction using bacteriophages.

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    This document discusses several topics related to microbial genetics including plasmid replication and partitioning, mechanisms of genetic exchange like transformation, conjugation, and transduction. It describes plasmids, their types and functions, as well as how bacteria exchange genetic material through natural transformation, conjugation using Hfr and F' strains, and generalized and specialized transduction using bacteriophages.

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    This document discusses several topics related to microbial genetics including plasmid replication and partitioning, mechanisms of genetic exchange like transformation, conjugation, and transduction. It describes plasmids, their types and functions, as well as how bacteria exchange genetic material through natural transformation, conjugation using Hfr and F' strains, and generalized and specialized transduction using bacteriophages.

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    Microbial Genetics: Genome organization in bacteria; Plasmid - Types of plasmids, Plasmid

    replication and partitioning, Host range, plasmid-incompatibility, plasmid amplification,


    Regulation of copy number, curing of plasmids; Mechanisms of Genetic Exchange -
    Transformation - Discovery, mechanism of natural competence; mapping through co-
    transformation frequencies; Conjugation - Discovery, mechanism, Hfr and Fʹ strains, Interrupted
    mating technique and time of entry mapping; Transduction - Generalized transduction,
    specialized transduction, LFT & HFT lysates, abortive transduction.

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