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06-04-2010, 09:22 AM
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a virus can make the distinction between an uninfected cell without using a sense that we humans rely on (6th sense?)
Can it though? It wouldn't make any difference. The real detection is whether or not the cell has the proteins on its membrane that the virus can interact with, and that's no more a sense than adjacent puzzle pieces.
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