Comments on: We know what retroviruses were up to 407 million years million years ago http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/2012/08/22/we-know-what-retroviruses-were-up-to-407-million-years-million-years-ago/ The latest news about microbiology Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:58:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pat Heslop-Harrison http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/2012/08/22/we-know-what-retroviruses-were-up-to-407-million-years-million-years-ago/#comment-24562 Pat Heslop-Harrison Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:53:02 +0000 http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/?p=5144#comment-24562 Why stop at 407 million years? Arguably, something not unlike a retrovirus predates, by a short while, the first living organism, 4billion years ago. It was responsible for reverse transcribing the RNA (unstable, uncontrollable, and unorganized) into DNA, which then formed the basis of life.

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