Pointless things to do with animals
http://www.stuffonmycat.com/
My first dissensus post and I use it for this.
Regrets?
A few.
http://www.stuffonmycat.com/
My first dissensus post and I use it for this.
Regrets?
A few.
minikomi said:reliant on their host to translate their coded messages
either coated in protein or even in membrane derrived from their host cell.
direct the replication machinery of their host through the SHAPE they form from folding up on itself
minikomi said:Prions - or proteinaceous infectious particle - are mishapen host proteins which poke into other proteins and cause them to be mis-shapen in the same way... and thus cause serious problems. think of an infectious protein game of tag.. mad cow disease is like this. theres some others in humans as well but they tend to only infect canibals who like to chow on brains!
minikomi said:(virus cells are) "reliant on their host to translate their coded messages"
minikomi said:(the DNA or DNA-ish information is) "either coated in protein or even in membrane derrived from their host cell."
minikomi said:(Virus cells) "direct the replication machinery of their host through the SHAPE they form from folding up on itself"
confucius said:so that's what you mean by "get the circle rolling"... ... (even more confused look) ... which means... virus cells reproduce in circular patterns?
can you explain the following a little further:
virus cells do have protein? but what about the second part, how can it's DNA be stored in the host?
ok what on earth are you bloody talking about.
HMGovt said:Paul Davies mentions in last week's New Scientist that some theorists have proposed that prions, viruses, viroids may be "relics of ancient alternative forms of life". How cool is that? Aliens in our midst.
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg18925381.600.html