The ability of certain bacterial cells to take on different cell shapes is known as

A) meiosis.
B) pleomorphic.
C) pallidic.
D) pyloric.
E) fission.


Answer: B) pleomorphic.

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Which is a characteristic of retrotransposons, but not of DNA transposons?

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