A bacteriophage carries a fragment of bacterial DNA to another bacterium. What is this called?
AConjugation
BTransduction
CBinary fission
DTranslation
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Transduction
Transduction is virus-mediated horizontal gene transfer, described by Zinder and Lederberg.
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