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- initialism
horizontal gene transfer
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Joy (1): No, HGT is a mechanism for altering genomes in already-living organisms.
Assessing Causality 2008
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No, HGT is a mechanism for altering genomes in already-living organisms.
Assessing Causality 2008
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At any rate, HGT is a mechanism for passing changes to offspring that arise for interactions with your environment.
Assessing Causality 2008
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At any rate, HGT is a mechanism for passing changes to offspring that arise for interactions with your environment.
Assessing Causality 2008
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No, HGT is a mechanism for altering genomes in already-living organisms.
Assessing Causality 2008
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Nonetheless, what all this demonstrates, from antibacterial resistance to HGT, is far, far, far, from the "quirk" you portrayed the SOS system to be.
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We do know that horizontal transfer happens naturally, but what we DON'T know about HGT is that it's "random."
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It may be that organisms or proto-organisms such as viruses play a role in HGT events, but there is a fundimental randomness in that role.
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An important stimulator of HGT is in fact, the SOS system.
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Viral HGT is mediated by bacteriophage enzymes that insert the gene into the genome (normally for a prophage, but where it picks up genes and does it is a different story).
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