Question

Gene information moving on evolutionary time between parts of the tree of life?

pseudogene

short tandem repeats

environmental sequencing

gene duplication

lateral gene transfer

Answer 1

pseudogene:

lateral gene transfer:

lateral gene transfer or horizontal gene transfer is the movement of genetic material between unicellular and or multicellular organisms other than by the vertical transmission of DNA(reproduction) from parent to offspring.It is an important factor in the evolution of many organisms.It is a potential co founding factor in inferring phylogenetic trees based on the seqence of one gene.For example,the most common gene to be used for constructing phylogenetic relationships in prokaryotes is the 16S ribosomal RNA since its sequences tnd to be conserved among members with close phylogenetic distances but variable enough that distances can be measured.