Based on "Winter" by William ShakespeareWhen ghastly melons guard the door,And coloured sugars come by the bag,And fields of grass wear green no more,And leaves begin to wilt and sag. When the bones of nature litter our floor,Then Jack grows into a witchly hag,Makeup and wig Come out at last, While greedy children knock at the gate.When days grow short and nights. Once in the host's cell, the RNA strands undergo reversetranscription in the cytosol--that's, like, the internal fluid in a cell--andare integrated into the host's genome, at which point the retroviral DNA isreferred to as a provirus. Eventually the new genome will completely takeover." So in theory, any gene could be activated or deactivated by a signal sentthrough a retrovirus, thus fundamentally altering the behaviour of anorganism's DNA, in effect writing a new genome. If you knew which.Read More
