The process by which a bacterium uses a sex pilus to transfer genetic information to another bacterium is

A. conjugation.
B. mitosis.
C. replication.
D. apomixis.
E. parthenogenesis.


A. conjugation.

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Letter “B” designates the ____, which allowed for an increase in human population growth

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