Of Viruses and Lego Bricks

Mar 27

The Lego Death Star and the Brick Testament use the same building blocks. Viruses are like that too

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Andrew’s Substack

Mar 29Liked by Chris Buck

Can we be certain the seemingly chimeric sequences are due to horizontal transfer and not convergent evolution?

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