The acquisition of a relatively small amount of genetic material from an organism that is not a parent of the receiving organism is most specifically referred to as:
A. vertical descent.
B. horizontal gene transfer.
C. endosymbiosis.
D. parasitism.
E. Darwinian evolution.
B
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