catharsis

[sinequibusnon]

So the other day I was in microbio and the professor was lecturing about viruses and what not. She soon mentioned the prophage mechanism. What happens is a virus infects the host cell with its DNA and is incorporated into the host’s genome. For whatever environmental reasons it doesn’t do the normal virus thing and take over the cell and force it to make more viruses until the cell burst open with new viruses. No, the incorporated viral DNA just hangs out for however long it wants to. It will be replicated with the actual host DNA down generations. It becomes part of the host DNA in every sense. Then there is an environmental trigger that activates that section of foreign DNA and the normal viral process is carried out (the host creates viruses until it dies). Now I’m in class getting all deep about this. Think about it. I know people that are like that. I’m pretty sure I’ve been like that at some point too. Stuffs to deep, so here's a picture of a wet cat--
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