Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well that's what it says.
Perhaps he was dictating? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlIz0q8aWpA
Dictated, not transcribed.
Why does the SARS-Cov2 genome end in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? (2020)
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#24The top answer at the link explains it best: Good observation! The 3' poly(A) tail is actually a very common feature of positive-strand RNA viruses, including coronaviruses and picornaviruses. For coronaviruses in particular, we know that the poly(A) tail is required for replication, functioning in conjunction with the 3' untranslated region (UTR) as a cis-acting signal for negative strand synthesis and attachment to…
Adding a poly(A) tail when engineering rna plasmids is so common that it's part of the standard feature library of most plasmid editors.
Here I have a screenshot of the ApE editor displaying one plasmid I made for a neurobio experiment involving the overexpression of two chimeric proteins (actin and profilin, respectively linked to green and red fluorophores; note the editor has autotagged the polyA tail feature):
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#25I can't see that and not think: base64 null byte padding.
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#26The virus printer adds padding to make the genome a multiple of 64
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#28The top answer at the link explains it best: Good observation! The 3' poly(A) tail is actually a very common feature of positive-strand RNA viruses, including coronaviruses and picornaviruses. For coronaviruses in particular, we know that the poly(A) tail is required for replication, functioning in conjunction with the 3' untranslated region (UTR) as a cis-acting signal for negative strand synthesis and attachment to…
The biological equivalent of an endline
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It’s a good thing people aren’t more intelligent, otherwise they would be able to construct and propagate deeper and more advanced conspiracies like this. Most people thankfully don’t even know what a genome is.