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(C) Conjugation is a process of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria where genetic material is transferred from a donor cell to a recipient cell throu

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Lederberg and Tatum

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(C) Conjugation is a process of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria where genetic material is transferred from a donor cell to a recipient cell through direct cell-to-cell contact.This phenomenon was discovered by $Joshua 	ext{ } Lederberg$ and $Edward 	ext{ } Tatum$ in $1946$ using the bacterium $Escherichia 	ext{ } coli$.

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