Why is Agrobacterium-mediated genetic engineering transformation in plants considered as natural genetic engineering ?

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Why is Agrobacterium-mediated genetic engineering transformation in plants considered as natural genetic engineering ?

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Agrobacterium tumifaciens is a pathogen in many dicot plants. It is able to
deliver a piece of DNA (T.DNA) to transform normal plant cell into a tumor
and directs these tumor cells to produce the chemicals required by pathogen.

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