horizontal gene transfer: the real IM? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, December 17, 2014, 18:16 (3629 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained


> >David: My point is HGT is accepted as happening. Perhaps God arranged for it when life's genomes were set up.
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>Tony: Which is more likely, that genes were swapped like baseball cards and every organism managed to make them do something useful, of that the "gene pool" is nothing more than a standard collection of function libraries which were used to program similar functions wherever they were needed?-Which is why I brought up the issue of primary patterns, which is something you first pointed out in programming comparisons. I think you are right, but it may in part be due in part to horizontal transfers. Some animals come with organs for that purpose.