BACTERIAL SEX. “Not only do plasmids replicate, copying across to a daughter cell when a bacterium divides, but they can also pass between unrelated bacteria through mechanisms such as cell-to-cell contact or a ‘bridging connection’ in a process called ‘conjugation’ – which has been described as the bacterial equivalent of sex.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022