Pathogenic bacteria gain resistance to antibiotics due to changes in their :

Pathogenic bacteria gain resistance to antibiotics due to changes in their :
  1. Cosmids
  2. Plasmids
  3. Nucleus
  4. Nucleoid

Solution

Plasmids are extra chromosomal DNA in bacterial cytoplasm which provide additional feature to the bacteria such as antibiotic resistance, $\mathrm{N}_2$-Fixation, fertility, etc. Plasmid may contain resistance genes for several antibiotics.

Asked in: NEET 2022 (Phase 2)

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