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Crown gall disease in plants is caused b...

Crown gall disease in plants is caused by :

A

Ti-plasmid

B

Pi-plasmid

C

bacteria

D

virus

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A
Crown gall is especially interesting because it results from nature's own genetic engineering . The crown gall bacterium, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, enters the plant through a would . It then inserts a portion of tis own DNA into the DNA of the plant.
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