Biology
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ISBN: 9781259188138
Author: Peter H Raven, George B Johnson Professor, Kenneth A. Mason Dr. Ph.D., Jonathan Losos Dr., Susan Singer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 27, Problem 5A
Phage conversion in which viruses add genes to a bacterial cell can be considered to be a form of
a. standard inheritance.
b. horizontal gene transfer.
c. vertical gene transfer.
d.
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