Saturday, January 30, 2010

You are About 8.3% Virus in Your DNA

Here's an interesting talk by Carl Zimmer:



Funny... only 1.2% of your genome codes for proteins, this is the part that we think of as being "you". But 8.3% of your genome is the descendant of virus infections. Whoa! That in some crazy sense makes you more virus than human!

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