Which best describes the different modes of bacterial reproduction?
a. in genetic recombination, two new genetically identical cells are produced.
b. in conjugation, a special sex pilus is required to connect two bacterial cells.
c. in transduction, a bacterium exchanges a piece of its own dna with another from the environment.
d. in transformation, bacterial dna is transferred from one bacterium to another by a replicating virus.

Which statement is not an accurate description of meiosis? a) meiosis produces offspring that are genetically diverse. b) meiosis produces offspring that are identical to the parent. c) in sexual reproduction half of the genetic material comes from the father (sperm) and half of the genetic material comes from the mother (egg). d) meiosis decreases the number of chromosomes by half so that when a sperm fertilizes an egg, the resulting zygote has the correct number of chromosomes.