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What is conjugation? Who discovered it and in which organism?

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(1) Conjugation is a process, in which two live bacteria come together and the donor cell directly transfers DNA to the recipient cell.
(2) This process was first observed in 1946 by Lederberg and Tatum in Escherichia coli.
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