Infectious enthusiasm - MSU scientists discover new microbes in Yellowstone
| November 25, 2007 |  View for printing |
Scientist Mark Young brought out a small bag of green- and yellow-coated chocolate candies to explain something cool about viruses.
“A virus is an M&M,” Young said. “It has a hard shell on the outside made of protein, and inside, the soft gooey stuff is DNA or RNA.”
Young, a 50-year-old professor of plant science at Montana State University, grinned as he got into one of his favorite subjects.
By GAIL SCHONTZLER Chronicle Staff Writer
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