Two dataset after ingest, can I compare gene expression?

I have a question for scanpy.

I have two dataset (WT and KO).

I fisrt QC two dataset seperately and merge it using ingest function.

In this case, can I campare gene expression between two seperately normalized dataset?

Or should I normalize again after merge?

I used sc.pl.normalize_total.

Thank you for your help.

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