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If a piece of DNA in transferred into alien organism, what will happen?

A

Most likely this piece of DNA will multiply itself on its own and is transferred into progeny cells of the organism

B

Most likely this piece of DNA will not be able to multiply itself in the progeny cells of the organism

C

It multiplies when gets integrated into the genome of the recipient at ori but is not transferred into progeny cells of the organism

D

It will multiply itself after some food is added in the alien cell

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