When a key nutrient such as nitrogen or carbon becomes scarce, some bacteria replicate their DNA and encapsulate one copy, along with some cytoplasm, in a tough cell wall heavily thickened with peptidoglycan and surrounded by a spore coat.The parent cell then breaks down.The result is
A) an endospore.
B) lateral gene transfer.
C) programmed cell death.
D) endosymbiosis by another member of the same species.
E) release of the genome into the environment.

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The process described is the formation of an endospore, a dormant and highly resistant structure formed by some bacteria in adverse environmental conditions.

When a Key Nutrient Such as Nitrogen or Carbon Becomes