• ToxicWaste
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    25 days ago

    While technically phages are viruses, i think it is important to label them as phages.

    Typically a virus does not look like a robot. The by now rather well known SARS-CoV-2, with its spherical shape is a more common depiction of a virus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus

    Bacteriophage look like little robots and from the view of a bacterium - they probably are the equivalent of a terminator: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

    • bruh@lemmy.ml
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      25 days ago

      But phages are the most ubiquitous form overall. Maybe not as relevant if you mean viruses that infect humans.