11 Eight mutant bacteriophage strains cannot lyse a certain
11. Eight mutant bacteriophage strains cannot lyse a certain type of bacteria that can be lysed by wild-type bacteriophages. The mutant strains were allowed to infect the bacteria in a complementation test. A \"+\" indicates that lysis occurred with coinfection. A \"-\" indicates that lysis did not occur.
(a) A cistron is defined by no complementation in the _____________configuration.
Select one:
(a) cis
(b) trans
How many genes are mutated in this experiment? (use anumber not a word in the space) _____________________
Which of the following strains below are defective in the same gene as strain 7? Answer yes if the strain is defective or no if it is not.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 | - | - | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| 2 | - | + | + | + | + | + | + | |
| 3 | - | + | + | - | + | - | ||
| 4 | - | + | + | - | + | |||
| 5 | - | + | + | + | ||||
| 6 | - | + | - | |||||
| 7 | - | + | ||||||
| 8 | - |
Solution
A cistron is defined by no complementation in the trans configuration
How many genes are mutated in this experiment?
ans 13
| Strain | Defective |
| 1 | no |
| 2 | no |
| 3 | yes |
| 4 | no |
| 5 | no |
| 6 | yes |
| 7 | N/A |
| 8 | yes |
