I love those virus shapes. They always fascinated my as a kid in science class.

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it’s wild how they just look like little guys, how did that happen

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and what little dances are are they doing with those little legs??

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It’s crazy how cute a lot of these things look under a microscope. Even E coli. looks adorable wriggling around.

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The “legs” grab onto bacterial cell membranes to insert the central stalk like a syringe. It is a specialised adaptation to parisitism of a specific kind of host, which is observed in many advanced obligate parasites. This kind of specialisation results from many generations of co-evolution.

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8 points

Nah, it can’t be, no blue hair

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um sorry sweaty, viruses don’t have hair. Learn to science

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How you know is sweating?

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FAKE NEWS! This us a bacteriophage! It infects bacteria, not humans!

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