Sentences with phrase «exchange gene information»
It is called the bacterial equivalent of sex, because it is usually used to exchange gene information between Gram negative bacteria.
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Once such a gene is generated, bacteria can then transfer the genetic information in a horizontal fashion (between individuals) by plasmid exchange.
It appears to have acquired several genes that make it more pathogenic, however, probably in a process called horizontal gene transfer, by which microbes exchange bits of genetic information.
We found out when we examined genes that quite often we could find evidence that one gene had given the path of its sequence to another related gene, so it was as if there were two genes and one said, «I'm not going through, the New York business,» and the other one said the slightly different message, and yet they exchanged information.