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Bacteria Worksheet #3
Biology 11
1. Compare and contrast between sexual and asexual reproduction in bacteria.
2. Describe the difference between obligate aerobes, facultative anaerobes, and obligate
anaerobes.
3. Why are bacteria important to everyday life? Name 4
reasons.
4. How does binary fission differ from conjugation?
5. What are three ways monerans can share genetic information?
6. Describe the steps of binary fission.
7. Describe the steps of conjugation.
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8. Compare and contrast the process of transformation and transduction.
9. Match each term in Column B with its description in Column A.
Column A
Column B
____1. small pieces of circular DNA
____2. using a virus to transfer DNA from one bacterial
cell to another
a. binary fission
b. conjugation
____3. chromosome replication, followed by cell division
c. endospore
____4. picking up and incorporating DNA from dead
bacterial cells
d. transformation
e. transduction
____5. special dehydrated cell formed when conditions
are unfavorable
f. pili
g. plasmid
____6. exchange of genetic material through cell-to-cell
contact
____7. hair-like structures on the surface of bacteria