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The lipid container is weird to me. Is that all it takes to send instructions inside a cell? Seems like a security hole. Why haven’t viruses evolved to have a
by mrfusion 6y ago
The lipid container is weird to me. Is that all it takes to send instructions inside a cell? Seems like a security hole. Why haven’t viruses evolved to have a lipid container?
- inportb 6y ago> Why haven’t viruses evolved to have a lipid container? They have. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_envelope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_envelope
- jforman 6y agoI was going to say you can't get very far without a protein vehicle, but then I remembered that's quite incorrect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrotransposon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrotransposon The injection is important, however, as it gets the genetic material past a whole lot of nucleases that cover your epithelia.