Viruses that infect viruses 🦠 #shorts
Channel: Rulers of Knowledge
Date: 2024-03-26

We most often think of bacteria and viruses when they make us sick, however, they are also in our tissues, trying to ensure the survival of their own species. But since almost all living things fight viruses, are viruses always winners? Do viruses have no enemies? . The recently identified phage called "Sputnik" has shown that viruses can also get sick, and a new term has entered the terminology: "virophages". Sputnik, like other viruses, transfers its DNA to the host cell, replicates and spreads by harming the host. In short, we have a "virus that infects viruses". Moreover, Sputnik is not the only one of its kind. Many new virus-infecting viruses have been identified in the literature. #information #knowledge #facts #unknownfacts #science 
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