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Biotechnologists refer to Agrobacterium tumefaciens as a natural genetic engineer of plants. Give reasons to support the statement.

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Agrobacterium tumefaciens 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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