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Author: Joanne Willey
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Higher Education (us)
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The genetic material transfer in-between the two bacterial cell through bridge like association or by the direct cell to cell contact between two cells are called as bacterial conjugation. The donor cell gives a mobilizable or conjugative genetic element during conjugation. It is most often a transposon or plasmid.

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