Researchers in the Late 1950s Isolated Multiple Antibiotic-Resistant Strains of the Bacterium

question 28

Short Answer

Researchers in the late 1950s isolated multiple antibiotic-resistant strains of the bacterium Shigella,which causes dysentery.Such resistance was caused by nonchromosomal R factors that originated in E.coli.Which of the following forms of extrachromosomal heredity-maternal effect,organelle heredity,infectious heredity-would you consider most closely related to the transfer bacterial antibiotic-resistant strains?

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