Yeah but they didn’t use to be viruses, they used to be bacteria.
And they didn’t integrate into human genome. They’re just another foreign body that lives inside human cells, but they have their own genome still.
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faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 weeks agoI vaguely remember something about organelles inside a cell used to be seperate entities too
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Mitochondria, for sure. They even still have their own DNA separate from your actual human DNA.