SELF-REPLICATING PLASMIDS. “Many are mobile genetic elements that direct their own transmission to new host cells during conjugation (the unicellular equivalent of sex), thereby spreading themselves to closely related and evolutionarily distant prokaryotes. They are then transmitted vertically, from mother to daughter cells.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022