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#bionerding 馃 #neato I guess the biology textbooks are going to need some revision
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell I wonder ... what came first? The amoeba or the virus?
On the one hand, it's easy to imagine the amoeba being an easy pathway to virus precursors, conveniently providing a mechanism to get "in" the target host for free.
On the other hand, if viruses came before the nucleus, maybe there had to be some sort of weird amoeba like creatures with no nucleus at some point?
I don't know if you're watching the Anton video but the idea of the hypothesis is that a DNA virus infected a cell and decided to stay.
In other words, eukaryotic nucleus derived from a DNA virus that setup shop in symbiosis rather than parasitism
@GhostOnTheHalfShell I did watch the video. I am very much not a microbiology expert, so I can't really say much other than that it's really interesting to me.
The central fact to notice about viruses is they hijack the metabolic structures of other cells. They are pretty much on the boundary of what we can defined as life and not life.
I haven鈥檛 seen the complete video yet because of the ice killing taking priority, but I think it鈥檚 probably safe to say that the story of the emergence of what we think of his life with bacteria or archea that story is much more interesting than we know even now
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