During bacterial conjugation, bacterial DNA with different alleles get together. What is the name of the long tubular structure that bacteria use to obtain differing alleles?

a. the sex pilus
b. the metabolic pilus
c. the flagellum
d. the asexual pilus


Ans: a. the sex pilus

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