true or false: transformation in a bacterial system would always result in a pathogenic strain.?

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true or false: transformation in a bacterial system would always result in a pathogenic strain.?

2006-07-05 04:44:16 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology

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False. Transformation simply means to put a plasmid inside the bacterial cell. The plasmid will give resistance to a certain antibiotic but doesn't always contain/activate genes involved in pathogenesis.

2006-07-05 05:09:30 · answer #1 · answered by bellerophon 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋

False?

2006-07-05 11:47:51 · answer #2 · answered by surlygurl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋