Biology 2nd Edition by Robert Brooker, Eric Widmaier ,Linda Graham ,Peter Stiling

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A bacterial species that becomes resistant to certain antibiotics may have acquired the resistance genes from another bacterial species. The phenomenon of acquiring genes from another organism without being the offspring of that organism is known as
A) hybridization.
B) integration.
C) horizontal gene transfer.
D) vertical gene transfer.
E) competence.