RNA TO DNA. “Also quite provocative is the idea that RNA viruses might be at the origin of DNA biochemistry. According to this scenario, RNA-based viruses infecting RNA-based cells would have acquired an RNA-to-DNA modification system to resist cellular RNA-degrading enzymes (the RNA equivalent of present-day bacterial restriction and modification systems).”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022