Jim Webster wrote:

"Brian Sandle" wrote in message
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Jim Webster wrote:

"Brian Sandle" wrote in message
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That is what I was trying to convey.

It is subtle since if you kill all of your hosts you die, too. There
must
be some of that knowledge in the genome, too.


no, it is purely a matter of categorisation on our part. Diseases kill
their
hosts, parasites don't necessarily. It is our labelling, not anything
the
organism is doing

Viruses don't even multiply without a host.

I presume you look up your memory bank to remind yourself how to keep
alive. Do not kill every last host. If there is stress start swopping
genes faster.

what memory bank?

The `junk DNA'.

so you don't know

So you don't read Moosh:]'s articles, I have to economize somehwe
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In the junk DNA there is just about
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Where is there any evidence of this. I think you are
getting carried away with the classifications again. If you run out of
hosts
you just find more

Jump species? You would have to do that before you killed every last
one of the previous species.

which isn't a problem, those who prey on only one species are very much a
minority

Lots of viruses tend to be specific to certain classes of hosts.

Calici haemorrhagic disease jumped to rabbits in 1970s in China, though I
don't know why.

Using pig organs in humans in concert with GM is a risk that pig viruses
will jump and spread through the human population.