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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

While technically phages are viruses, i think it is important to label them as phages.

Typically a virus does not look like a robot. The by now rather well known SARS-CoV-2, with its spherical shape is a more common depiction of a virus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus

Bacteriophage look like little robots and from the view of a bacterium - they probably are the equivalent of a terminator: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

But phages are the most ubiquitous form overall. Maybe not as relevant if you mean viruses that infect humans.