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Conjugation is a mechanisms used by bacteria to move genes between cells by exchanging a circular extrachromosomal DNA with each other. Transduction is when viruses that infect bacteria accidentally take some bacterial genes with them into a new cell that htey infect (kinda like STDs). Transformation is when a bacteria gets DNA from its environment.

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Transformation is when foreign DNA is taken from the outside environment. Transduction is when phages carry prokaryotic genes from one host cell to another.

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