The the most common way that a bacterium can acquire a plasmid with genes for antibiotic resistance from another bacterium is horizontal gene transfer.
What is antibiotic resistance?
Antibiotic resistance is a form of acquired resistance to antibiotics displayed by bacteria cells.
Antibiotic resistance is commonly acquired by the transfer of resistance plasmids from one bacteria to another by the process of horizontal gene transfer.
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