Bacteria have a form of sex. It is horizontal rather than vertical biological information transfer though. I don’t know what the limits of the transfer are, but it might make sense to talk about groups of bacteria that can transfer genes between them as a species. Evolution is not a simple thing.
Bacteria have a form of sex. It is horizontal rather than vertical biological information transfer though. I don’t know what the limits of the transfer are, but it might make sense to talk about groups of bacteria that can transfer genes between them as a species. Evolution is not a simple thing.