Musuq
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A bacterium harboring a 15,000-base pair (bp) plasmid that encodes resistance to tetracycline and ampicillin segregates mutants that lose resistance to either drug. Each independent mutant plasmid appears to increase in size by approximately 5200 bp. Which molecular event best explains these findings?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
A) Formation of plasmid concatemers
B) Formation of pyrimidine dimers
C) Homologous recombination
D) Insertion of a transposon
E) Slip-stranded DNA replication errors
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| docsrinu
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i think C. not sure
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| disha
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D-TRANSPOSON(NOT SURE)
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| docswapna
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i guess C..
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