Each of the Following Is a Mechanism for Drug Resistance

question 34

Multiple Choice

Each of the following is a mechanism for drug resistance transfer between microorganisms, except _______.

• A) transposons
• B) R-plasmids
• C) conjugation
• D) mutation

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