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1)What are plasmids? What advantages could they confer to the bacteria?
2)what is the difference between reproduction and recombination?
3)What is horizontal gene transfer? List three methods of horizontal gene transfer?
1)Plasmids can replicate independently because they are small extra chromosomal DNA molecules which is present within the cell but they are seperated from the chromosomal DNA.
Advantages to bacteria.
They facilate replication process in bacteria.
They have important for bacterial evolution.
They carry beneficial characters for bacteria.
Helps in adaptation in an new environment.
2) Reproduction.
It is a process in which new individual offspring are produced from the parents.It is important for evolution.
Recombination.
It is a process in which two organisms exchange genetic materials from each other.It creates genetic diversity.
3) Horizontal gene transfer.
It is a process in which genetic material is exchanges to untreated organism.
Three methods of horizontal gene transfer are conjugation, transduction, transformation.