Hey bro, can I have some antibiotic resistance?
Sure bro, but remember that the heavy metal tolerance gene is a dependency.
Shit, I'm on python 2 but hmrA requires python 3.
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Also sometimes they will change your sex in the process.
Males are bloat. Reproducing asexually and exchanging genes horizontally is clearly more efficient.
Only in simpler species, higher animals have too much depencies.
Other things are simpler. Did you know that there was a group of goats stranded on an island, developed cold-bloodedness to save ressources?
Oooh, that's a new one to me! Biology is a never ending source of these oddball examples.