hgt.

American  

abbreviation

1. height.

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hgt British  

abbreviation

1. height

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Example Sentences

We’ve therefore already answered our second question: When reconstructing the past, HGT noise does not overwhelm the evolutionary signal.

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As we’ve learned from recent work, HGT is much less common here: You are far less likely than an E. coli to pick up and incorporate into your genome a piece of DNA you find lying about.

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Today, that sketched-out tree of Darwin still looks good, even if, à la Quammen, we should add a couple of faint dashed lines showing HGT between its spreading branches.

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However, these HGT events, often mediated by viruses, do occur in complex species.

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Quammen is right that the horizontal transfer of genetic information does complicate our effort to understand the evolutionary past, but he goes too far in claiming that HGT essentially undermines any and all attempts to reconstruct the evolutionary past: “The tree of life is not a true categorical because the history of life just doesn’t resemble a tree.”

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