R plasmids

... reproducers such as E. coli produce clones of itself which are identical to the parent. Fast responses to environment is then from exchanging plasmids but these are separate transient genomes, not the primary genome that accomplishes cell growth and reproduction. There are "living fossils" ...

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... reproducers such as E. coli produce clones of itself which are identical to the parent. Fast responses to environment is then from exchanging plasmids but these are separate transient genomes, not the primary genome that accomplishes cell growth and reproduction. There are "living fossils" ...

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Yes capsid proteins can self asemble in solution. I am not sure what you mean by manufactured, but the genes can be cloned in plasmids, and protein can be synthesized without anything else from plamids. Re self assembly: do you have any source material handy, something I can look at ...

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Yes capsid proteins can self asemble in solution. I am not sure what you mean by manufactured, but the genes can be cloned in plasmids, and protein can be synthesized without anything else from plamids.

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... very different from Eukaryotes (us) genetically--that's why they are in a seperate domain from protists, fungi, plants and animals. They ingest plasmids and are infected by viruses. Thus they have insertions, deletions and replacement of their DNA. Some of them revert back and are called revertants. ...

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