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What are Kappa particles.

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They are cytoplasmic symbionts occurig in some strains of the ciliated paramecium which have their own DNA. It liberates a toxin paramecin and strains which possess these particles are called 'killer paramecia'. Inheritance of killer trait, is by extra chromosomal inheritance.
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