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Explain the mechanism for three ways that DNA can be transferred from one prokaryotic cell to another​

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Transduction, Transformation, and Conjugation.

Step-by-step explanation:

Transformation allows for competent cells to take up DNA, released from other cells on their death, into their cytoplasm, where it may recombine with the host genome.

In Generalized Transduction, any piece of chromosomal DNA may be transferred by accidental packaging of the degraded host chromosome into a phage head.

Conjugation is meditated by the F plasmid, which encodes a conjugation pilus that brings an F plasmid-containing F+ cell into contact with an F- cell.

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