Sorry but truth never changes.
Sorry, but viruses don't mate and breed together. So flu vaccines aren't based on transferring genes via copulation as animals and humans breed offspring. so it's not evolution that leads scientists to invent vaccines. It's understanding how viruses react to outside stimuli.
22 comments
Woah. You really don't have a clue about how viruses or the immune system work, do you?
1) Attach to cell
If there is something in the body (say an antibody) that is not able to catch some of the offspring viruses' offspring (because they are different enough due to the mutation that the antibody doesn't recognize them) then evolution occurs by natural selection.
From Wikipedia, Viral Evolution:
All of these types of changes have a potential to make a particular virus strain more suitable to live in a given environment.
Sorry but truth never changes.
Our perception of this truth changes based on how much we know about the truth, and thus theories about the truth can change even when the truth doesn't.
"Sorry, but viruses don't mate and breed together."
But they do do something broadly similar.
"Constraints to Genetic Exchange Support Gene Coadaptation in a Tripartite RNA Virus"[i]PLoS Pathogens[/i], volume 3 number 1 .
Genetic exchange by recombination, or reassortment of genomic segments, has been shown to be an important process in RNA virus evolution, resulting often in important phenotypic changes affecting host range and virulence. [...] Genetic exchange is, with mutation, a primary source of genetic variation and plays an important role in virus evolution. Viruses possess mechanisms for genetic exchange that make their reproduction “just as sexual as that in eukaryotes”
Viruses aren't even alive to copulate with one-another.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
To post a comment, you'll need to Sign in or Register . Making an account also allows you to claim credit for submitting quotes, and to vote on quotes and comments. You don't even need to give us your email address.
