PROTO-LIFE. “Yet prions don’t reproduce the way living things do, using genetic material; they’re more like zombies in horror movies that turn their human victims into zombies as well. They’re not made up of cells, and they don’t have any kind of metabolism. Because they lack genetic material and a cellular structure, prions are less often grouped in with living things than viruses.
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