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Everything I hear is about bacterias though. I wish we found more about viruses.
by Fire-Dragon-DoL 3mo ago
Everything I hear is about bacterias though. I wish we found more about viruses.
- bongoman37 3mo agoBacteria is plural, bacterium is singular.
- pazimzadeh 3mo agoviruses and transposons are a major source of creativity in life. the adaptive immune system of jawed vertebrates like us, which defends against viruses, only exists because the RAG transposon inserted itself into the gonads of our fish ancestors 500 million years ago Origin of immunoglobulins and T cell receptors: A candidate gene for invasion by the RAG transposon https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40614193/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40614193/