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Title: What types of nonlethal conditional mutations affecting bacterial cell division have been recovered? ...
Post by: madisonbodiford on Feb 12, 2018
What types of nonlethal conditional mutations affecting bacterial cell division have been recovered?
 
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Title: What types of nonlethal conditional mutations affecting bacterial cell division have been recovered? ...
Post by: sej011 on Feb 12, 2018
Ans: Mutations affecting septum formation have been recovered. In these cases, cell growth and chromosome segregation occur, but cells do not divide, so the result is a long filament with evenly spaced nucleoids. In mutations where septum formation is too frequent, minicells lacking nucleoids are a result. Finally, mutations affecting chromosome segregation, resulting in anucleate cells, have been recovered.