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    12 hours ago

    Those are two different types of cells. Prokaryotes are bacteria and eukaryotes have organelles and make up us. Conjugation is a vector for antibiotic resistances and making otherwise neutral/symbiotic bacteria into menaces. I’m reasonably sure the F pilus/Type 4 secretion system has nothing to do with meiosis and the implications thereof. It also makes me think of the fun type 3 secretion system, the fuck you pilus, that things like Salmonella use to inject bullshit into your cells.