Sex factor in bacteria is:

1. F- replicon
2. Chromosomal replicon
3. RNA
4. Sex pili

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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.