Biotechnologists refer to Agrobacterium tumefaciens as a natural genetic engineer of plants. Give reasons to support the statement.
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Biotechnologists refer to Agrobacterium tumifaciens is known as a natural genetic engineer of a plant because it has the natural ability to integrates its plasmid genes into the plant genomes. It can deliver a piece of T-DNA in the plant genome.
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Due to its natural ability to genetically engineer plants, Agrobacterium tumefaciens is referred to as natural genetic engineer of plants by Biotechnologists. This capability is very useful in the integration of plasmid genes into the plant genomes. Thus they are believed to be the natural genetic engineer for the plants.
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