1. Which of the following characteristics or processes is common toboth bacteria and viruses?
a. binary fission
b. conjugation
c. mitosis
d. nucleic acid as the genetic material
e. ribosome in the cytoplasm
2. Which of the following processes would never contribute to geneticvariation within a bacterial population?
a. transduction
b. transformation
c.meiosis
d. mutation
e. conjugation