Think-Pair-Share Questions

An F⁺ plasmid is a conjugative plasmid that codes strictly for the ability to produce a conjugation pilus and a mating pair.

State what medically significant event  might occur if a transposon located in the chromosome of a normal microbiota intestinal  bacterium and containing genes for antibiotic resistance were to cut out of the bacterium’s chromosome and insert into the F⁺ plasmid.