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this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.
This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
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They're RNA not DNA.
And not being able to classify them doesn't mean "we don't know what they are". You literally just said they're ~~DNA~~ RNA and proteins instead of full cells.
Why do they exist? Probably genetic lottery when life was still starting out on Earth.
They can be either to be exact.
I agree. That's why I said "we kinda know what viruses are".
That's true but it's kind of true for all life.