1 Viral Genetic Mutations
1.1 Genetic Shift
Whole segments of genome exchange abruptly as two flu viruses infect the same cell to create a new strand. There are two mechnisms by which happens — ( #ASK ) the crossing-over mechnism and genome segment reassortment
1.1.1 Crossing-over
Self-mixing of ozaki fragments during viral recombination in the KBhBIO101DNAReplication process cause sudden mutations
1.1.2 Genome Segment Reassortment
Two viruses coinfect the same cell, causing cross-talk in swapping segments
1.2 Genetic Drift
This usually occurs due an error in a polymerase-driven process, where single/groups of nucleotides flip slowly over time due to mistakes in KBhBIO101RNAReplication.
The former is an environment-dependent process, where the latter is able to be modeled as it is due to predictable transcription mistake.
1.3 Mutation w.r.t.
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- RNA viruses could mutate more because it does not have checks
- More complex+largest viruses (DNA viruses) harder to mutate