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To the limits of where our understanding of how "entities" are connected to one another (homology). Yes, there's nothing like them. You could make an argument they are "viroid-like" and there's a deeper evolutionary connection between viroids/viruses/plasmids, but the information theory to formally establish such a connection is not sufficiently developed. It's a worthy scientific problem!

Is it common to find new viruses/viroids/biological agents? Well it certainly is starting to feel that way to me.

parent ababaian 1 year ago

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