ANTITHESIS OF TRADITIONALITY. “Prokaryotes, with their non-mechanical relationship to the environment, their non-reproductive gene acquisition (horizontal gene transfer), their lack of enforced stability of genomic content, and their lack of differentiated somatic tissue, are the antithesis of multi-cellular eukaryotes organismal individuality.”
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