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Biology
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Author: Peter Stiling, Robert Brooker, Linda Graham, Eric Widmaier
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Which of the following is an example of horizontal gene transfer?

  1. a. the transmission of an eye color gene from father to daughter
  2. b. the transmission of a mutant gene causing cystic fibrosis from father to daughter
  3. c. the transmission of a gene conferring pathogenicity (the ability to cause disease) from one bacterial species to another
  4. d. the transmission of a gene conferring antibiotic resistance from a mother cell to its two daughter cells
  5. e. all of the above.
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