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Bacteria can pick up pieces of DNA (genes found on plasmids) that is floating around in the media they are growing on. Three main ways of doing this:

1) Transformation: a bacterium acquires DNA from the environment;

2) Transduction: a virus infects a bacterium and some bacterial DNA is entrapped in the viral capside; this virus infects another bacterium and transfers the DNA of the previous bacterium;

3) Conjugation: a bacterium transfers DNA directly to another bacterium.
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