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| Mar 11 at 16:06 | comment | added | Robert Rapplean | @Nosajimiki, Thank you for pointing this out. I've adjusted the answer to suit. My point about women being harder to attack relates to the reality that all men have X chromosomes, but no women have Y chromosomes. You can get into the finer details of the chemical biases generated by the expression of the genetics, but that's what I meant by "more difficult". | |
| Mar 11 at 15:59 | history | edited | Robert Rapplean | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 11 at 13:35 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | I see your point, but your wording is misleading in a few places. They don't "feed" on proteins, but they do bind to them. As for all the stuff about Women being more resistant to certain infections, that has nothing to do with proteins. Woman have unique proteins too. It is because there are certain immune responses that are female specific that make them less susceptible to certain infections. But what they are more resistant to is typically bacteria (like syphilis). | |
| Mar 9 at 22:56 | comment | added | Robert Rapplean | @Nosajimiki, I wish it were that simple. What we can say is that viruses are nucleic acids. They have to find appropriate carbohydrates or proteins on the cell's membrane in order to attack it. Once inside, they use the cell's own replication mechanisms (which are mostly nucleic acids) in order to create more of themselves. Which part is the attack? All of it, really. My assertion was that it is the outer coating of the cell that will determine if the virus will latch on and attempt to gain entry. | |
| Mar 8 at 21:59 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | Viruses attack nucleic acids (DNA/RNA), not proteins. | |
| May 12, 2022 at 18:29 | history | answered | Robert Rapplean | CC BY-SA 4.0 |