Do you think that bacterial uptake of a plasmid from the environment is a common event? why or why not?

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snow_tiger [21]3 years ago

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First Plasmid is a chromosomal element often a circular DNA.

The uptake of a plasmid from the environment is NOT a common event reason being, bacteria naturally take up DNA from their environment in a process called transformation. Thus if a bacterium takes up a piece of DNA that cannot be maintained in a cell then that cell will not survive.

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