If Bacterial Conjugation Is Allowed to Take Place for More

question 43

Multiple Choice

If bacterial conjugation is allowed to take place for more than an hour, then two different genes (A and B) are transferred together.Even if conjugation occurs for only a few minutes, both A and B or neither of the genes is conjugated.It's only when conjugation takes place for only a few seconds that you see instances of only one of the genes being transferred.Most likely, genes A and B

• A) are involved in the same metabolic pathway.
• B) are close together on the bacterial chromosome.
• C) are far apart on the bacterial chromosome.
• D) exhibit epistasis.
• E) are codominant.

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