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Q. Who discovered transduction in bacteria?

COMEDKCOMEDK 2011Molecular Basis of Inheritance

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Transduction, discovered by Zinder and Lederberg in 1952, in Salmonella hjphimurium is a method of genetic recombination in which genetic material is transferred from one bacterium (the donor) to another bacterium (the recipient) by a bacterial virus called a bacteriophage.