Bacterial plasmids

A) confer protective traits such as toxin production and the ability to resist drugs.
B) are essential to growth and metabolism.
C) are always completely separate from the bacterial chromosome.
D) are only passed on to bacterial offspring.


Ans: A) confer protective traits such as toxin production and the ability to resist drugs.

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