Genetic Variation in Prokaryotes through Horizontal Gene Transfer
Explore how prokaryotes gain genetic diversity through transformation, transduction, and conjugation, enabling some bacteria to acquire traits such as antibiotic resistance and toxin production that drive evolution.
Topics
- AP
- AP Biology
- AP Bio
- next generation science standards
- NGSS
- horizontal gene transfer
- vertical gene transfer
- binary fission
- budding
- transformation
- conjugation
- transduction
- antibiotic resistance
- cholera
- bacteriophage
- genome