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#Question id: 5256


If the experimental population of E. coli lacks an F factor or F plasmid, and if bacteriophage are excluded from the bacterial cultures, then which of these is a means by which beneficial mutations might be transmitted horizontally to other E. coli cells?

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology
  1. via sex pili

  2. via transduction

  3. via conjugation

  4. via transformation