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- From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: What homing device does a virus use?
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 13:17:32 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- References: <1e8fusINNqmc@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> <17491@pitt.UUCP>
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- Summary: Huh?
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- In article <17491@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
- > The same way that plant seeds distinguish soil from rocks: they don't, ...
-
- For once, you lose me. Seeds clearly do distinguish soil from
- rocks: they grow in the former and die on the latter. I suspect
- either of us could even make a reasonable explanation of the
- mechanisms involved. Now ... What are the mechanisms in the case
- of the question I posed?
-
- Russell
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