Fundamentals Of Microbiology 10th Edition by Jeffrey Pommerville

Exercise 3

In 2011, researchers reported that they had discovered for the first time that bacterial cells can acquire human genes. They found that more than 10% of a Neisseria gonorrhoeae population, the species responsible for gonorrhea, contained a human DNA fragment. This fragment was not found in other species of Neisseria. How might a bacterial cell have acquired this human DNA fragment