Which best describes the different modes of bacterial reproduction?
a. in genetic recombination, two new genetically identical cells are produced.
b. in conjugation, a special sex pilus is required to connect two bacterial cells.
c. in transduction, a bacterium exchanges a piece of its own dna with another from the environment.
d. in transformation, bacterial dna is transferred from one bacterium to another by a replicating virus.

Atypical human cell is approximately 12.00 μm in diameter and enclosed by a membrane that is 5.000 nm thick. (a) what is the volume of the cell including the membrane? (b) what is the volume of the cell membrane? (c) what percent of the total volume does its membrane occupy? to simplify the calculations, model the cell as a sphere. enter your answers using four significant figures.

Determine if the following statement is true or false. if true, choose true. if false, choose the rewording that is true. according to the law of independent assortment, alleles for each gene are inherited together so that they always stay together. according to the law of independent assortment, offspring express a combination of their parents' traits. according to the law of independent assortment, alleles for a characteristic split during meiosis and combine during fertilization. true according to the law of independent assortment, alleles for each gene are inherited independently so that no two alleles stay together.

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