Question 1: Describe the three different forms of horizontal gene transfer. HGT DNA is transferred by what? Brief description of how. Conjugation Transduction Transformation
Question 2: Describe how an organism can mutate its genome to gain the ability to perform new functions without losing the ability to perform the original function.
Question 3: Discuss how both horizontal gene exchange and mutation contribute to the evolution of a genome of a bacterium.
We discussed this extensively with respect to antibiotic resistance but this can work with any genes.