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Really you'd call it the opposite of eating, if anything, right? Viruses inject DNA into their victim, and the victim explodes with clones.
by orblivion 16y ago
Really you'd call it the opposite of eating, if anything, right? Viruses inject DNA into their victim, and the victim explodes with clones.
- woadwarrior01 16y agoYes, but I think its a tad bit more meta. At the risk of sounding like a total idiot, I'd conjecture that the virophage injects DNA into its victim, a virus. Which in turn injects its DNA into its victim, a cell. The cell explodes with clones of the virophage instead of the target virus, which go on to infect more viruses. Thus systematically reducing the number of viruses with each iteration by cutting into their only replication mechanism.
- mrpsbrk 16y agoYeah, totally, where exactly does the energy flow chain lies there is somewhat beyond me!