HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER is bigger than we thought. “The concept of horizontal gene transfer has clearly moved from a quirk seen in certain organisms to a driving force in evolution. The human genome contains genes from both archaeans and bacteria, and the genome of one organism thought to be primitive, Thermotoga maritima, was found to be one-quarter borrowed from other organisms.””
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http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/243/eukaryotic-origins-revolution-in-the-classification-of-life
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022