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I was confused by your comment for a moment. Then I realized that you probably don't know that there already exist natural viruses which hijack bacteria by inje
by wcoenen 14y ago
I was confused by your comment for a moment. Then I realized that you probably don't know that there already exist natural viruses which hijack bacteria by injecting their own DNA.
Wherever you find bacteria, you also find these bacteriophages. They co-evolve with their host in a never-ending arms race of defenses and counters. No asymmetric crypto though :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage
- arethuza 14y agoAnd way up there on the creepy/cool scale there are viruses that incorporate themselves into the DNA that is passed from generation to generation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus