Allison
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41 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 approximataly 5200 bp. Which molecular event best explains these findings?
o A) Formation of plasmid concatemers
o B) Formation of pyrimidine dimers
o C) Homologous recombination
o D) Insertion of transposon
o E) Slip-stranded DNA replication errors
Please explain your answer.
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| linaorvos
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D? not sure....
DNA change bt. bacteria via plasmid
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| yasmeen
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c recombination
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