"The software of life used to seem sacred. Lowly bacteria share genes willy nilly, but plants and animals were thought to pass them along only by having sex.

A new study, however, found two instances of sex-free gene swapping from a parasitic flower to weeds on which it clings."

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/041119_gene_transfer.html


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