Quoting ian glendinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You said. > > > > Fascinating? Not to me. > > Ian asks, how do you explain how and why they do mutate ?
Not being a biologist I can't explain. Maybe you can enlighten me. Has something to do with genetic errors I think. > The you asked. > > Do they mutate into something other than viruses? > > > > Yes or no. > > Yes, (but). They do? > [IGNORE as an aside for now] > You and I may never have seen one do it. No-one may have seen one do > it in a human lifetime for all I know. > > Mostly their mutations are probably insignificant in any observable > sense, some of the mutations will result in different viruses with > different reactions with their biosphere (eg us humans and our > health), but no reason why some should not mutate into forms which > contain more life type characteristics. There are plenty of > explanatory models of the evolution of life that postulate this, and > cite "fossil record" evidence (in the broadest sense), and plenty that > cite existing everyday processes in zygote and prion development that > are entirely analogous by observation, ditto with certain funghi and > their spores, ditto the symbiotic relationships between higher > life-form hosts and their viral / bacterial "guests". But we don't > need to go anywhere that complex yet - a step too far for now. > [END IGNORE] OK > Keeping it simple for now. A question > Do you see any significant difference between say > The common cold virus and the ebola virus ? > (After all the are both "just" viruses) > > Yes or no. Yes. But don't see what that has to do with evolution of viruses. There is a significance difference between a common garden snake and a rattlesnake. So? moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
