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Plasmids can be distinguished from bacterial chromosomes because only plasmids...
A. are not required by the cell
B. are replicons
C. can carry antibiotic resistance genes
D. can carry toxin genes
E. can carry transposons
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| silver
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E ??
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A. are not required by the cell
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| Tiff
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 A is correct (not required by the cell). Plasmids are extrachromosomal segments of DNA. They do not encode essential genes and are dispensable. Bacterial chromosomes are indispensable.
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