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Genetic information can jump from plant to plant

Sometimes, DNA extracted from a plant’s green chloroplasts show great similarities with related species that grow in the same area. The phenomenon has confounded scientists, who have assumed the sexually incompatible species somehow cross-bred. Now, researchers say they have the answer, and that cross-breeding isn’t even necessary for this “chloroplast capture” to occur.


Posted: 2012-02-03 09:08:38

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