Prescott's Microbiology 8th Edition by Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Christopher J. Woolverton, Lansing Prescott, John Harley, Donald Klein

Exercise 6

Give the major features of plasmids. How do they differ from chromosomes? What is an episome?

Step 1 of 3

Plasmids carry genetic material that replicate independently of the chromosome. Like chromosomes, plasmids contain genetic information, are capable of replication, are double-stranded, and can exist in either linear or circular form.