Multiple choice

“Amongst the eukaryotes, fungi and plants are found to have plasmids, but not animals. ”Which of the following are true for the eukaryotic plasmids?

  1. In case of filamentous fungi, plasmids are frequently found in isolates of natural populations.

  2. One strain of fungi always contain a single type of plasmid only.

  3. Plasmids are inherited paternally in crosses.

  4. Circular plasmids are absent in Neurospora sp.

  5. Circular plasmids have two open reading frames (ORF).
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Explanation

This is true for filamentous fungi. Here the plasmids are frequently found in isolates of natural populations.

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