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You are a dog-loving scientist who wants to insert into your dog a gene that encodes a protein that protects dogs from heartworms. A dog's cells are not competent, so they cannot take up the gene from the environment, but you know the heartworm resistant gene sequence, have a plasmid, a competent bacterium, and a related (though incompetent) bacterium that lives as an intracellular parasite in dogs. Describe a possible scenario that uses all of these tools to genetically alter your dog to be heartworm resistant.