Question

When a bacteriophage, in its lytic phase, carries some of the bacterium partially digested chromosome with it to another host cell, the process is called.

• A. generalised transduction
• B. conjugation
• C. transformation
• D. specialised transduction

Answer 1

The correct option is A generalised transduction

Transduction is the transfer of genetic material from one cell to another cell by a bacteriophage. The bacteriophage containing the bacterial DNA is called transduced DNA. A DNA fragment is transferred from one bacterium to another by a lytic bacteriophage which carries donor bacterial DNA.

So, the correct answer is 'Generalised transduction'.