Question

The image shows a paramecium and a bacterium. One of these organisms is very good at rapidly adapting to environmental changes because it has the ability to take in stray genetic information from the environment. Which structure allows the organism to do this?

Answer 1

The bacteria forms new kind of cells to adapt to a new environment. This adaptation is under tight genetic control, involving the expression of multiple genes.

the bacteria need to adjust their enzyme levels in order to quickly benefit from the nutrient mix that is currently available in the surrounding.

If the living environment undergoes a sudden change, the bacterium's own production of proteins has to fulfill these changes in an effective way.