article_snippet.sent: The study is known to do something called ‘horizontal gene transfer’, which involves exchanging genes between different species - in contrast to normal gene transfer within one species.
article_snippet.sent: This so-called transgenic process is similar to the artificial process induced by humans (stock image shown)
article_snippet.sent: It demonstrates that genetic modification also happens in nature.
article_snippet.sent: The transgenic process - a gene that has been transferred naturally - is similar to the artificial process induced by humans.
article_snippet.sent: However, the difference pointed out by the resarchers is that we can control the man-made process, while the natural process is out of we hands.