Important Terms

prototrophic bacteria

minimal medium

auxotrophic bacteria

complete medium

colony

plasmid

episome

F (fertility) factor

conjugation

transformation

transduction

pili (singular, pilus)

competent cell

transformant

cotransformation

horizontal gene transfer

virus

virulent phage

temperate phage

prophage

plaque

generalized transduction

specialized transduction

transducing phage

transductant

cotransduction

intragenic mapping

retrovirus

reverse transcriptase

provirus

integrase

oncogene

antigenic drift

antigenic shift