>>212903340>prionsnothing to do with DNA, they just uncurl your proteins, works at a lower level. it's like saying that poking a CPU with a soldering iron is a form of software bug
>virusesyes they're specifically designed to penetrate cells and put DNA in them, to make more viruses. but the thing is that the probability of a virus picking up a random bit of DNA from one cell and then getting it into somewhere else is astronomically tiny. it does happen, and we explicitly use various mechanisms like this in genetic engineering, but it's infinitesimally rare and irrelevant in this case.
>bacteriahow the fuck does DNA enter a cell from a bacterium