virus is well versed in dark arts skills

Tags: DNA, retroviruses
Categories: Pseudo-explanations

An example of anthropomorphism in popular science writing:

"…they harnessed the skills of a type of virus well versed in the dark arts of integrating into human DNA, a retrovirus."

Catherine Carver

Carver, C. (2017). Immune. How your body defends and protects you. Bloomsbury Sigma.

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.