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  • Q:

    A researcher wants to insert a series of genes too large to be practically transferred by a plasmid. The researcher places them into a viral capsid and infects a bacterium with the virus. This method of gene transfer is known as:

     

    A

    transformation

    B

    transduction

    C

    conjugation

    D

    vertical gene transfer



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