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What are the methods bacteria use to take up foreign dna that encodes antibiotic resistance?

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Methods bacteria use to take up foreign DNA that encodes antibiotic resistance are transformation, conjugation and transduction.
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Answer;

-Transformation;

-Conjugation

Transduction;


Explanation;

The methods bacteria use to take up foreign DNA that encodes antibiotic resistance includes;

- Transformation; this is the uptake of naked DNA in the environment.

-Conjugation; involves the direct cell to cell contact

- Transduction which is the transfer that is mediated by baceriophage (bacteria viruses)

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