Dave wrote:
>Got any references to the blurred distinction between viruses and genes? I
Actually viruses are more like little chunks of DNA with a squid head on
one end. They grab onto a cell's nucleus (with the little
squid-head-thingy) and inject their own genetic material right into it, so
that the cell ends up doing all the hard replication work for them, thinking
it's its own DNA, and the virus never really needs any of that hardware or
much of a phenotype at all other than that little squid-head-thingy
attachment. (Oh, I just love those technical terms!)
>thought viruses were kind of the phenotype and genes the replicator,
-Prof. Tim