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General Category => Matters of Life and The Universe => Topic started by: Zzzptm on January 29, 2021, 04:25:16 PM

Title: Viruses in DNA
Post by: Zzzptm on January 29, 2021, 04:25:16 PM

Utterly fascinating - we have virus fossils in our DNA!

Title: Re: Viruses in DNA
Post by: Vyn on January 29, 2021, 06:10:24 PM

That DNA is some crafty shit.

Title: Re: Viruses in DNA
Post by: Zzzptm on January 29, 2021, 06:40:49 PM

Quote from: Vyn on January 29, 2021, 06:10:24 PM

That DNA is some crafty shit.

My head was spinning with all the crazy stuff it was up to.

Title: Re: Viruses in DNA
Post by: Charger on January 30, 2021, 07:09:46 AM

Quite fascinating indeed.

DNA does save data.

Title: Re: Viruses in DNA
Post by: Zzzptm on January 30, 2021, 09:14:58 PM

And that virus or its close relatives, over millions of years, got into multiple species DNA.