Sex factor in bacteria is: F- replicon Chromosomal replicon RNA Sex piliDo explain all the terms and also explain the answer.

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The fertility factor (first named F by one of its discoverers Esther Lederberg; also called the sex factor in E. coli or the F sex factor; also called F-plasmid) allows genes to be transferred from one bacterium carrying the factor to another bacterium lacking the factor by conjugation.