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Duer 157099

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21. I think you have that backwards

Reply to FarCenter (Reply #15)

Sat Jul 20, 2013, 03:15 PM

Jul 2013

viruses are less complex than bacteria, so it would have to devolve to have been a bacteria first.

Where is the evidence of symbiosis in this case?

ETA: Oh, I see what you mean, I think

The genome of the virus includes typical NCLDV core genes and genes apparently obtained from eukaryotic hosts and their parasites or symbionts, both bacterial and viral, through probably horizontal gene transfer mechanism.

and:

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/51/21848

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More likely it was once a bacteria or other single celled organism, which became a parasite FarCenter Jul 2013 #15

The Daily Mail reporter knows all about that stuff from a documentary he saw once... pinboy3niner Jul 2013 #17

I think you have that backwards Duer 157099 Jul 2013 #21

Oh, what could possibly go wrong.... Matariki Jul 2013 #18

Now, if there was just a way to weaponize them... rugger1869 Jul 2013 #19

Oh, I thought they meant this guy Rex Jul 2013 #20

I tend to think that small viruses are scarier than big ones Duer 157099 Jul 2013 #22

This article isn't asking you to be scared of them at all NoOneMan Jul 2013 #26

It doesn't have to Duer 157099 Jul 2013 #28

ok, yeah, but thats not even the point NoOneMan Jul 2013 #29

Absolutely agree Duer 157099 Jul 2013 #30

Even Evangelical Republicans? NoOneMan Jul 2013 #31

Yes, like a train wreck Duer 157099 Jul 2013 #32

K & R Scurrilous Jul 2013 #24

Mars, eh? Now that's Science! MineralMan Jul 2013 #25

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Mars, LOL? I think not! pinboy3niner Jul 2013 #38

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