Virus fossils from several thousand years ago show what about the origin of viruses?
- None of these
- They were once small cells that lived parasitically on bigger ones.
- They appeared and evolved simultaneously with life on Earth.
- They evolved from bits of DNA that escaped from cells of organisms.
Answer
The correct answer is A) None of these.
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