These endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), contrasted with exogenous ones, now make up 5-8% of the human genome.
In this model, the RNA world hypothesis, cellular organisms adopted the more chemically stable DNA when retroviruses evolved to create DNA from the RNA templates.
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