Anonymous ID: ceb58e June 4, 2021, 3:09 p.m. No.13830797   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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A chimera is essentially a single organism that's made up of cells from two or more "individuals"โ€”that is, it contains two sets of DNA, with the code to make two separate organisms.

 

Viruses[edit]

 

Boiling Springs Lake, California, is where the first natural chimeric virus was found in 2012.[65]

Main article: Chimera (virus)

In 2012, the first example of a naturally-occurring RNA-DNA hybrid virus was unexpectedly discovered during a metagenomic study of the acidic extreme environment of Boiling Springs Lake that is in Lassen Volcanic National Park, California.[65][66] The virus was named BSL-RDHV (Boiling Spring Lake RNA DNA Hybrid Virus).[67] Its genome is related to a DNA circovirus, which usually infect birds and pigs, and a RNA tombusvirus, which infect plants. The study surprised scientists, because DNA and RNA viruses vary and the way the chimera came together was not understood.[65][68]

 

Other viral chimeras have also been found, and the group is known as the CHIV viruses ("chimeric viruses").[69]

 

On 22 August 2016, another bill, The Human-Animal Chimera Prohibition Act of 2016, was introduced to the United States House of Representatives by Christopher H. Smith. It identifies a chimera as:

 

a human embryo into which a nonhuman cell or cells (or the component parts thereof) have been introduced to render the embryo's membership in the species Homo sapiens uncertain;

a chimera human/animal embryo produced by fertilizing a human egg with nonhuman sperm;

chimera human/animal embryo produced by fertilizing a nonhuman egg with human sperm;

an embryo produced by introducing a nonhuman nucleus into a human egg;

an embryo produced by introducing a human nucleus into a nonhuman egg;

an embryo containing at least haploid sets of chromosomes from both a human and a nonhuman life form;

a nonhuman life form engineered such that human gametes develop within the body of a nonhuman life form; or

a nonhuman life form engineered such that it contains a human brain or a brain derived wholly or predominantly from human neural tissuesโ€ฆ

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_%28genetics%29