Microbiology Fundamentals: A Clinical Approach
3rd Edition
ISBN: 9781259709227
Author: Marjorie Kelly Cowan Professor, Heidi Smith
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 6, Problem 12Q
In binary fission, the parent chromosome is duplicated so that the two daughter cells each have the same copy of the original chromosome. If this is the case, speculate on what happened to allow bacteria to become diversified into so many types?
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