The determination of the P1-derived somatic founder cells (MS, E, C, and D)are autonomous, with cell fates determined by internal cytoplasmic factors SKN-1, PAL-1, and PIE-1

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Genetic exchange also happens between distantly related organisms by horizontal gene transfer, or HGT.

HGT is particularly important to prokarytotes and is the most common way by which they acquire new genes.

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Intimacy between the genomes of the mitochondria and the nucleus within a cell, it may not be surprising that extensive HGT has occurred between them

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Duplicate gene and its parental copy can subfunctionalize so that each carries out only some of the roles that the ancestral gene performed. 

Ex- a duplicate of the β-hemoglobin locus is expressed in the fetus. 

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No matter how it is born, a new gene starts its life as a single copy in the population.

As with any new mutation, by far the most likely outcome is that it will be lost by random drift or selection over the next few generations

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Fate of duplicate gene 

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If the duplicate is redundant and does not provide a fitness benefit, it will be lost by deletion or the accumulation of loss of-function mutations.

A second fate is that a duplicate can simply retain its original function.