If you removed the sex pili from a bacterial cell, then the

A) bacterium would dry out.
B) bacterium could no longer exchange DNA with other cells.
C) shape of the bacterium would change.
D) bacterium could no longer regulate the movement of molecules into and out of the cell.
E) bacterium could no longer swim.


B

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