Guest guest Posted April 25, 2003 Report Share Posted April 25, 2003 Summary: With more than 3500 viruses classified, a great mystery still remains as to whether they are alive at all. For examples like polio and rhinovirus, they present the only known examples of self-replication without using DNA for code storage. But with a relentless sense of survival, the kingdom of viruses can outproduce their host cells a thousand-fold while using a million times fewer bits of code. http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload & name=News & file=article & sid=416 & mode=thread & order=0 & thold=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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