Why Is It Easy to Transform a Bacterial Cell and Then

question 43

Multiple Choice

Why is it easy to transform a bacterial cell and then use that to transform an animal or plant cell?

• A) Because bacteria cells are so small they reproduce the new DNA quickly.
• B) Because bacteria cells easily take up, package, and then release DNA such that enzymes can then incorporate the DNA into an animal or plant cell genome.
• C) Because bacteria cells have plasmids which cut up DNA into small sequences easily taken up with enzymes by plant and animal cells.
• D) Because animal and plant cells get infected by bacteria all the time, so doing that in order to transform them by introducing new DNA doesn't typically kill the cells.
• E) Because bacteria "disguises" the foreign DNA so that the plant or animal cell doesn't recognize it and so allows it to mix right in with the cell's own DNA.

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