To: pieceofthepuzzle
Probably not all are active at any given point in time.Would the inactive ones "tar pit" a virus?
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05/10/2008 9:16:41 AM PDT by
tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic
That's an interesting question. If there were enough homology with the nucleic acids of an invading virus it might be possible for the bacterium to tie-up the viral genome such that it couldn't replicate.
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