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How does the relationship between bird host size and louse parasite affect the cospeciation dynamic between the two species?
Conjugal Gene Transfer
A process in bacteria where genetic material is transferred between bacterial cells through direct contact.
Binary Fission
A method of asexual reproduction seen in prokaryotic organisms and some single-celled eukaryotes, where a cell divides into two genetically identical daughter cells.
Conjugation
(1) A sexual process in ciliate protists that involves exchange of haploid nuclei with another cell. (2) A mechanism for DNA exchange in bacteria that involves cell-to-cell contact.
Pathogenic
Capable of causing disease; refers to microorganisms or agents that can produce an illness when they invade a host organism.
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