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I wonder how many of those base pairs are devoted to evading the host's immune system, as opposed to the primary function of being a fork bomb.
by kijin 7y ago
I wonder how many of those base pairs are devoted to evading the host's immune system, as opposed to the primary function of being a fork bomb.
- majewsky 7y ago> opposed to the primary function of being a fork bomb /me realizes that every organism is a fork bomb
- zaarn 7y agoProbably not that many, it should be sufficient that the immune system doesn't have anything to specifically deal with it, so it only has to evade the complement system (which for a virus isn't terribly hard). It also helps that the strategy is simply "replicate and just swarm the defense".