Abstract: Transduction of a large extra-chromosomal plasmid (315 kb) by bacteriophage P1kc from a host E.coli K12 to a recipient E.coli K12. This phenomenon was detected by by microbial genetic techniques and physical techniques that recovered and measured the entire plasmid in the recipient. Dissertation Discovery Company and University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "Studies in the Transduction of a Large F-prime F14 by Bacteriophage P1kc" by Edwin R. Hendrickson, was obtained from University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A digital copy of this work may also be found in the university's institutional repository, IR@UF. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation.