I believe the payments/bribes are called kickbacks.
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.
No because he/she will surley be put under the same pressure
