Which process allows nucleomorphs to be first reduced, and then lost altogether, without the loss of any genetic information from the host cell that ultimately surrounds the nucleomorph?

a. horizontal gene transfer
b. meiosis
c. conjugation
d. phagocytosis
e. binary fission


Ans: a. horizontal gene transfer

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