So the crazy thing is that if you take a teaspoon of soil and sequence it for bacterial information, almost all of that information is similar to what's been fo

So the crazy thing is that if you take a teaspoon of soil and sequence it for bacterial information, almost all of that information is similar to what's been found elsewhere. If you take that same teaspoon of soil and look for the viral genetic information in there, it's wholly unique. They seem completely unconnected to the rest of life, as far as nucleic acid signatures go.