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• By transferring a piece of bacterial plasmid DNA,
  T – DNA (transferred DNA), to the plant nuclear
  genome:
                                    The bacteria

1. force the plant to multiply (cancer diseases) and to
2. synthesize low molecular weight compounds (opines).

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