Explain the observations that led Zinder and Lederberg to conclude that the prototrophs recovered in their transduction experiments were not the result of F⁺ mediated conjugation.

Video transcript

Hello everyone and welcome to today's video. So letter Berg demonstrated the trans deduction phenomenon in which genetic information is transferred from one bacterium to another through one of the following processes. Let's go over each of them so that we may solve this. Question answer is a we have bacteria taking naked D. N. A. Which is foreign genetic material from the environment. When bacteria are taking directly this naked DNA from the environment this is called transformation. This is not transaction. So we're going to cancel this out. Then we have conjugation between bacteria of different strains this is going to be describing again conjugation which is not transaction. So we're going to be canceled in this out as well. And only we have bacteriophages released by the donor strain of bacteria. Well the main point that is going to be representing this trans deduction process is going to be bacterial Fiji's. These viruses are going to enter bacteria and then when they lies this bacteria and they're released into the environment they're going to take some of these DNA and transfer it to the bacteria are around them. Because of this answer choice B. Is going to be the correct answer to our question as it is perfectly describing trans deduction. I really hope this video helped you and I have to see you on the next one