If a bacterium regenerates from an endospore that did not possess any of the plasmids that were contained in its original parent cell, the regenerated bacterium will probably also lack ________.
A) antibiotic-resistant genes
B) a cell wall
C) a chromosome
D) water in its cytoplasm

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Plasmids are extra-chromosomal pieces of DNA that can contain genes for antibiotic resistance, among other things. If the endospore did not contain any plasmids with antibiotic-resistant genes, then the regenerated bacterium will not have them either.

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