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Agriculture · Q106

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 106

Q106

Transduction was discovered in virus by

A.
Zinder & Lederberg
Answer
B.
Wallace & Jacob
C.
Lederberg and Tatum
D.
Herelle & Twort

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
Transduction was discovered in the virus by Zinder & Lederberg.
Transduction is the process by which a virus transfers genetic material from one bacterium to another. Viruses called bacteriophages can infect bacterial cells and use them as hosts to make more viruses.
Genetic recombination in bacteria in which genes from a host cell (a bacterium) are incorporated into the genome of a bacterial virus (bacteriophage) and then carried to another host cell when the bacteriophage initiates another cycle of infection.