AnotherQuark t1_j6p3iu5 wrote
Reply to comment by Tyrosine_Lannister in A microbiologist's argument for new probiotics as the most promising frontier in biohacking, medicine, and enhancement-- an "app store" for genes. by Tyrosine_Lannister
I read once that our mammalian ancestors originally took the dna coding needed to evolve a placenta from a virus.
Apparently there's a phenomenon of dna swapping between viruses and their hosts. I realize that viruses work a lot differently than bacteria when it comes to doing what they do, and how they do it. But, i imagine it at least wouldn't be impossible for similar things to happen with other organisms.
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