A colony of mice is treated with a noninfective form of the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae. A

researcher exposes this noninfective form to heat-killed cells of an infective strain. The bacterial cells
are said to be:



a. transduced.
b. artificially transformed.
c. transformed.
d. noninfectious.
e. conjugated


C

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