remember viruses used to be diamond shaped with a long neck and spidery legs, like some kind of space probe?
yep i remember that...
it went from this https://pic8.co/sh/HvT3Ug.jpg
to this https://pic8.co/sh/JyyEQq.jpg
That top one looks like a bacteriophage, which I guess is technically a virus, maybe?
I mean... Phages target bacteria and viruses generally arget eukaryotes... But they all replicate virally... So...
I'm still confused/annoyed that viruses aren't considered alive. They evolve, so I'd say yes, but I'm in the minority on that one.
It's truly mind boggling the diversity in the viral types. It makes sense with their relative simplicity, and life cycle, but still. Damn complicated.
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