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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
So you want to say that our immune system don't respond to non-enveloped viruses (the ones w/o protein markers, like adenoviruses)? For real?
P.S. To the believers. The human can have only one DNA. This is a simple explanation on why a female can not have a DNA of her male partners. Her DNA will be her for life.
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I never said that, but since you really want to push it:
Adenoviruses don't have the lipid bilayer envelope, but their capsid is still comprised of proteins that make it recognizable to our immune system.
Adenoviridae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Virus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As to just one DNA, that is also false. There is nuclear DNA (the DNA within the cells nucleus that make up our chromosomes, which is typically what we are referring to when we speak of DNA) and extrachromosomal DNA found outside of the nucleus which includes, but is not limited to, mDNA (mitochondrial DNA within the mitochondria, obviously). Nuclear DNA gets inherited reliably (ie each daughter cell gets one complete copy) but extracellular DNA is less exact and it is possible, but not likely, for one daughter cell to get all or none of the cytoplasmic materials.
Extrachromosomal DNA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Take notice of the part where it says
"In addition to DNA found outside of the nucleus in cells, infection of viral genomes also provides an example of extrachromosomal DNA."
As long as I'm dropping wikipedia links, here's one on
gene therapy which is all about mediating the effects of defective genes by the in vivo introduction of functional genes. If the introduction of foreign DNA caused an automatic immune response targeting the host cell, there would be no such thing.