Propey of acquiring antibiotic resistance from the viral colony is by -
TRANSDUCTION: the transfer of a poion of the DNA from one bacterium to another by a bacteriophage is known as transduction. bacteriophages are viruses that parasitize the bacteria and consist of a nucleic acid core and a protein coat. a phage paicle may have its core beside its own nucleic acid a segment of host DNA. When this paicle infects another bacterium DNA transfer is effected and the recipient cells acquire new characteristic coded by the donor DNA REF:Ananthanarayan and Panicker's Textbook ofMicrobiology 8thEdition pg no:63
Transferance
Conjunction
Transduction
Mutation
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