When a bacteriophage acts as a carrier of DNA from a donor cell to a recipient cell and highly specific parts of host genome are regularly incorporated into the new phages, this recombination event is ____.

Most microbes tend to be alkalinophiles functioning at a pH of 7.

A vector may be biological or mechanical.

The phase during the growth phases of bacteria in which the bacteria exhibit a plateau in growth is the _____.

Fungi may be beneficial or harmful.

Antibiotic susceptibility may be tested through a Kirby-Bauer Assay.

Eukaryotes and prokaryotes have multiple points of replication.

Essential indicates the nutrient does not need to be obtained by the organism.

Agar is not digestible.

Germ theory of disease was discovered by ___.