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Conjugation involves a transfer of genes

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Conjugation is a transfer of DNA from a living donor bacterium to a living recipient bacterium by cell-to-cell contact. In Gram-negative bacteria it involves a conjugation pilus. ... Conjugative transposons carry the genes that enable mating pairs to form for conjugation
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Conjugation involves a transfer of genes

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Conjugation is a transfer of DNA from a living donor bacterium to a living recipient bacterium by cell-to-cell contact. In Gram-negative bacteria it involves a conjugation pilus. ... Conjugative transposons carry the genes that enable mating pairs to form for conjugation.

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