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A simple question,
when?
Born, discovered, when did or will it, etc.
Bacteriophage → Duplodnaviria
~3.2 Billion Years Ago (+/- 200 million)
The HK97-Fold (Steel Pouch)
Viruses Story
Virus Evolution.
Monodnaviria
~1.75 Billion years ago (+/- 200 million)
single-stranded DNA viruses
Viruses Story
Virus Evolution.
Retroviruses (within Riboviria)
~1.25 Billion years ago (+/- 200 million)
Stitch themselves permanently into the host’s genome
Viruses Story
Virus Evolution.
Snowball Earth: When Ice Reached the Equator
From 717 million years ago through 635.
Cause: Continental Drift, Falling CO₂
Viruses Story
Evolution.
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