Question

what is horizontal gene transfer? how can it confuse our understanding of relationships between organisms? describe this in terms of the acquisition of mitochondria and chloroplasts in domain eukarya.

Answer 1

Generally gene transfer occur between parents to offiring which is called vertical gene transfer.on the other hand if gene transfer occurred rather then from the parent to offspring is called horizontal gene transfer. It ours between organisms from different species unlike vertical transfer for example transduction. It occurs between nuclear genome and mitochondrial genome and also among chloroplast genome and nuclear genome.