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Richard Dawkins tweeted minutes ago:
“We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal… tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA… as though at a great party” (Lewis Thomas).
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Can you see "this genome of what"? Considering the pandemic of COVID-19, it seems to be this genome of human being. I am not sure. Can you see what genome simply from this picking from the wider context?
“We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal… tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA… as though at a great party” (Lewis Thomas).
Source
Can you see "this genome of what"? Considering the pandemic of COVID-19, it seems to be this genome of human being. I am not sure. Can you see what genome simply from this picking from the wider context?