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In bacteria sexual reproduction or exchange of genetic material can happen in three ways. These include conjugation, transduction and transformation. Transduction involves bacteriophage inserting its DNA in a bacterium, transformation involves taking up a foreign DNA by the bacteria from the environment and in conjugation one bacterium transfers some DNA into another bacterium.
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