Department Microbiology
Prof. Dr. med. Sören G. Gatermann
Head of the Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology at the Ruhr-University Bochum.
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Plasmid
Plasmid History The term plasmid was introduced in 1952 by the American molecular biologist Joshua Lederberg, who used the term to refer to "any extrachromosomal heritable determinant". In 1968, the term plasmid was redefined as a term "for extrachromosomal genetic elements". To distinguish it fr...
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