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____ is the process when bacteria or archaea naturally take up dna from the environment that has been released by cell lysis or secreted.

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Natural transformation, as its name implies, is a natural mechanism used by some bacterial cells to take up DNA from the environment. This environmental DNA was, at one point, located in other bacteria. For instance, when bacteria die and disintegrate, their chromosomal DNA is released.

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