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Bacterial conjugation

Bacterial conjugation is the transfer of genetic material between bacteria through direct cell-to-cell contact. Discovered in 1946 by Joshua Lederberg and Edward Tatum,conjugation is a mechanism of horizontal gene transfer—as are transformation and transduction—although these mechanisms do not involve cell contact.

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