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book Biology 2nd Edition by Robert Brooker, Eric Widmaier ,Linda Graham ,Peter Stiling cover

Biology 2nd Edition by Robert Brooker, Eric Widmaier ,Linda Graham ,Peter Stiling

Edition 2ISBN: 978-0073532219
book Biology 2nd Edition by Robert Brooker, Eric Widmaier ,Linda Graham ,Peter Stiling cover

Biology 2nd Edition by Robert Brooker, Eric Widmaier ,Linda Graham ,Peter Stiling

Edition 2ISBN: 978-0073532219
Exercise 10
A bacterial species that becomes resistant to certain antibiotics may have acquired the resistance genes from another bacterial species. The phenomenon of acquiring genes from another organism without being the offspring of that organism is known as
A) hybridization.
B) integration.
C) horizontal gene transfer.
D) vertical gene transfer.
E) competence.
Explanation
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