Besides the nucleoid, two other kinds of DNA molecules that may be present in the cytoplasm of a bacterial cell are ________ and the genomes of ________.
A) bacteriophages; pseudogenes
B) introns; bacteriophages
C) plasmids; bacteriophages
D) plasmids; introns
E) introns; exons

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Plasmids are small, circular pieces of DNA that can exist and replicate independently from the bacterial chromosome. Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria and contain their own DNA genome. Both can be present in the cytoplasm of a bacterial cell. The other choices are not typically found in bacterial cytoplasm.

Besides the Nucleoid, Two Other Kinds of DNA Molecules That