what is their secretdo you think this is viable?>be a tree leaf sucking non metomorphizing insects for 100 million years>accidentally, due to having a insect cancer or something, the planets genes you are sucking end up in your insect genome>somehow survive the ordeal and produce offspring>offspring is a metamorphosing insect with partially plant genes (I mean plants genes that are not connected to plants chloroplast which is equivalent of animal mitochondria, what I mean is plant chromosome)could such a "once in a 100 million years" accident happen? and would things like this be actually driving force in evolution everytime when something big and radical changes occurs?
It's called simulation reality skipping
>>16829508Whiteflies have 49 plant genes. Thirteen other insect species also have plant genes (don’t know which ones)
>>16829696like turtles have some sponge genes...
>>16829508The term you are looking for is called "horizontal gene transfer" and it happens more often than you think.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer>chloroplast which is equivalent of animal mitochondriaI know this is kinda beside the point but nigger wtf? No! Plant cells have mitochondria. The organelles serve entirely different functions.
>>16829700Didn't all animals evolve through sponges, most living things do
>>16829508>just a pure accident/coincidence/random chance goysomething wanted them to fuse
