What Is an R Plasmid

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Multiple Choice

What is an R plasmid?

• A)They carry a gene for resistance to an environmental attribute,such as heavy metals,and genes for the transfer of the plasmid.
• B)They function in bacterial recombination.
• C)They are a plasmid that can exist in the chromosome or outside the chromosome.
• D)They are the plasmids that carry the F factor.
• E)It is an F factor that has picked up part of a bacterial genome.

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