> Maybe one day we'll find a virus-type replicator that also contains ribosomes - and what then? Mimivirus, another giant virus, has its own gene for an amino-

> Maybe one day we'll find a virus-type replicator that also contains ribosomes - and what then? Mimivirus, another giant virus, has its own gene for an amino-acyl t-RNA synthase, an enzyme that loads an amino acid onto a transfer RNA to be used in making proteins. That's awfully close to a ribosome component.