The Xer site-specific recombination system

a. is needed to allow segregation of nonrecombined daughter chromosomes.
b. is inactive during the process of bacterial cell division.
c. generates a single dimeric molecule.
d. is needed to resolve the product of a general recombination between copies of the bacterial chromosome.
e. is required to correct mutations generated during DNA replication.


Ans: d

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