Sentences with phrase «swapping bacterial genes»
While previous attempts focused on swapping bacterial genes that code for the turbocharged rubisco, the team also made other genetic substitutions that encode proteins that manufacture the rubisco.
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In her experiments, Lopatkin put bacterial cells under a sort of suspended animation where they could neither die nor reproduce but they could still swap genes.
«Antibiotics don't promote swapping of resistance genes: Bacterial resistance spreads through population dynamics, not an increase in gene transfers.»
It is the bacterial equivalent of sex, with two cells sidling up to each other and engaging in conjugation, or the swapping of genes, except that they do not have to wait for progeny to see the benefits.