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Was just looking around on Google Maps when I came upon this. Tried to look up information about it but couldn't really find anything. It can be found at 46.148151520423724, 47.485107607529216.

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It is even obvious to know that, in the world of biology, to perform a movement or anything needs energy. I believe the most famous molecule that provides such energy is ATP. But here I run into a problem: viruses have no metabolism, and are acellular. They basically "float" until they find a host. But they find and, in the case of the bacteriophage, its structure resembles a robot, but where does it get the energy to carry out the movement of injection of genetic material inside the bacterium??

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