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A tumour inducing plasmid widely used in...

A tumour inducing plasmid widely used in the production of transgenic plants is that of :

A

Escherichia coli

B

Bacillus thuringiensis

C

Staphylococcus aureus

D

Agrobacterium tumefaciens

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D
The vector used to introduce new genes into plant cells is most often a plasmid from the soil bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens. This is the Ti plasmid (Tumour inducing plasmid) so called because its nature it induces tumour in broad leaf plants.
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