Author Name = Frederic Bushman
Realeased On = Releases On 2002
This book is concerning mobile genes--the transfer of DNA between unconnected cells. It discusses the machinery of gene transfer and its wide-ranging biological and health penalty. Mobile DNA makes possible the growth of antibiotic argument in microbes, the change of safe to pathogenic bacteria, and the triggering of cancerous enlargement in cells. It also contributes to human development.
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), also side gene transfer (LGT), is any process in which an organism incorporates genetic material from another organism without being the offspring of that organism. By contrast, vertical transfer occurs when an organism receives genetic material from its ancestor, e.g., its parent or a species from which it has evolved.
The fact that genes can move between far-away branches of the tree of life still at low probabilities raises challenges to scientists trying to reconstruct development by study genes and gene sequences in different organisms. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) successfully scrambles the information on which biologists rely to reconstruct the phylogeny of organisms.
A new study successfully dismisses the idea that humans have acquire genes directly from bacteria during evolution. The study is the second in five weeks to refute the maintain that 113 human genes came to vertebrates through direct, or horizontal, move from bacteria. The original claim was published in February in the Nature paper on the human genome sequence. .
