The F-Plasmid ــــــــــــــــــــــــ

Question

The F-plasmid ــــــــــــــــــــــــ.
A)is transferable
B)non-transferable
C)is involved in transduction
D)always results in Hfr strain formation

Accepted Answer

The F-plasmid is transferable through conjugation, which is a mechanism of bacterial gene transfer. Therefore, it can be transferred from one bacterial cell to another. This transfer of genetic information is known as horizontal gene transfer.