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What Is Horizontal Gen Transfer?
Vertical gean transfer is parent to offspring, horizontal is side to side. When a cell dies and it spews their d and a into their environment, sometimes some of that d and a will end up in the cell of another m Is this like when people what's the point of sex? Why have sexual reproduction s? Because if you didn't, if you have a beneficial gene comes into existence, mutates into one organism, it's only going to go down to its offspring. But because you feel mixing geans between generations, you cangt horizontal shift bars and forwards. There are other forms of horizontal gen transfer. One is mediated by viruses. So as te vertical gean
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