PRIONS are biological rule breakers. So are other mobile parasitic or symbiotic genetic elements that include plasmids, transposons and other freaky elements of code. These are stray pieces of orphan genetic code that have gained strange autonomy from the cellular machinery. Pieces of floating DNA which introduce diversity in unexpected ways, and whose genetic freshness is a driver of evolution.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022