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Transduction method of genetic recombination in Salmonella typhimurium was first demonstrated by

  1. Zinder and Lederberg

  2. Griffith

  3. Lederberg and Tautum

  4. A. V. Leeuwenhoek

  5. R. Koch
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Transduction method of genetic recombination in bacteria, e.g. Salmonella typhimurium was first demonstrated by Zinder and Lederberg in 1952. It is the transfer of genes (small double stranded piece of DNA) from one bacterial cell to another via virus (bacteriophage).

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