World’s simplest life forms (and viruses)

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New smallest lifeform Sukunaarchaeum has only 238,000 base-pairs encoding 222 genes, half that of Nanoarcheon and Mycoplasma. All are degenerate parasites. Some viruses may have arisen from similar degeneration.
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