{"id":663535,"date":"2020-08-10T13:05:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T17:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=663535"},"modified":"2020-08-10T13:05:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T17:05:01","slug":"evolutionary-assimilation-of-foreign-dna-in-a-new-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=663535","title":{"rendered":"Evolutionary assimilation of foreign DNA in a new host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All life is subject to evolution in the form of mutations that change the DNA sequence of an organism&#8217;s offspring, after which natural selection allows the &#8216;fittest&#8217; mutants to survive and pass on their genes to future generations. These mutations can generate new abilities in a species, but another common driving force for evolution is horizontal gene transfer (HGT)\u2014the acquisition of DNA from a creature other than a parent, and even of a different species. For example, a significant amount of the human genome is actually viral DNA. Genetic engineering techniques now allow humans to intentionally induce HGT in various species to create &#8216;designer organisms&#8217; capable of things like renewable chemical production, but it&#8217;s often difficult to get foreign DNA working in a new host.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-08-evolutionary-assimilation-foreign-dna-host.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Evolutionary assimilation of foreign DNA in a new host<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All life is subject to evolution in the form of mutations that change the DNA sequence of an organism&#8217;s offspring, after which natural selection allows the &#8216;fittest&#8217; mutants to survive&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}