Why horizontal gene transfer important evolutionary process

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The researchers concluded that at some time in the past, a slug ate algal cells and their DNA was somehow incorporated into the slug's DNA. This process is called horizontal gene transfer and may have happened numerous time in many different species. Why could horizontal gene transfer be an important evolutionary process? What was an essential step that had to occur for this system to evolve?

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