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I've read about retrotransposons lately.

Completely insane mechanism that alters DNA of our cells in their lifetime in useless and dangerous way just because for DNA/RNA sequence to survive and spread it's sufficient that is figured out how to copy itself.

My another recent interesting read: viroids.



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