Nonpathogenic Vibrio cholerae can acquire the cholera toxin gene by
A)phagocytosis.
B)lysogenic conversion.
C)conjugation.
D)transformation.
E)infecting a pathogenic Vibrio cholerae.

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Nonpathogenic Vibrio cholerae can acquire the cholera toxin gene through lysogenic conversion, where a bacteriophage carrying the toxin gene integrates its DNA into the bacterial genome.

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