Q. The autonomously independent self-replicating extra nuclear DNA imparting certain factors to some bacterium is called
A) Plastid
B) Plasmid
C) Phagemid
D) Cosmid
Explanation
Plasmid is a small, autonomously independent, self-replicating extranuclear DNA, imparting certain factors to some bacterium. It is carried by the bacterium in addition to its genomic DNA.
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