Contemplating Conjugation

we congregate
to contemplate
bacterial conjugation
and the miscellany
of possibilities
of strain recombination
which, as you will see
can herald a mutation

Written for: "EXPRESS IT IN EIGHT"  Sept. 7, 2021
Prompts: Miscellany, Conjugate
Eight Lines

Author's Note: ▼

Bacterial conjugation is the transfer of genetic material between bacterial cells requiring cell-to-cell contact. It was the first extensively researched method of gene transfer.