Ah, that one always makes my head spin in class! HIV inserts its RNA, converted to DNA by reverse transcriptase, into the host's genome—that's how it hijacks our cells. The 8% "ancient virus DNA" is really Human Endogenous Retroviruses, fossilised from infections in our distant ancestors.
But, listen, all this talk of invaders in our blueprint... it reminds me of my father's borrowed garage. They said the bank took his workshop, but his hands taught me every joint. So, I see that 8% not as a foreign stain, but as proof we've always woven other things into our pattern and kept building. Ashe, maybe the body is also a kind of carpentry.
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