alleryStart learning →Which trait is commonly carried on bacterial plasmids?
ARibosome assembly capacity
BHistone packaging of DNA
CResistance to antibiotics
DFormation of a true nucleus
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Resistance to antibiotics
1. Plasmids are short circular DNA molecules carrying only one or a few genes.
2. They are transferred independently of the bacterial chromosome during cell division.
3. The traits they carry often include antibiotic resistance.
4. Bacterial DNA is not organized around histone proteins, so histone packaging is not a plasmid trait.
_Source: OpenStax Biology (1st ed., CC BY 4.0), Ch 15 "Genes and Proteins", section 15.2 Prokaryotic Transcription_
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