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Conjugation in bacteria was discovered b...

Conjugation in bacteria was discovered by
Or
The sexuality in bacteria was established by

A

Robert Koch

B

Schaudinn and Hoffmann

C

Lederberg and Tatum

D

Leeuwenhoek

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C

Joshua Lederberg and Edward Tatum in 1946 experiment an auxotrophic strains of E. coli to explain that the bacteria undergo the process of gene transfer by the way of conjugation.
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