/sci/ - Science & Math

Anyone else get the impression that no one gives a shit about biology?

Physicist call it a soft science and show it now respect.
Chemist think biologist are failed chemistry students.
Engineers don't care about biology because they can't build anything.
Investors had not really invested in biotechnologies until recently when compared to chemistry and physics.
The general public think of biology as what the see on animal planet or what their doctor tells them...

Mathematicians may be one of the few people who care about biology, but they like anything with numbers that can be crunched.

Bacteriofags: Is there any virus which may infect both animals and plants?

I have read a paper about Coevolution between insects and plants. The interesting point is that one of the mechanism of coevolution is the gene transference mediated by virus. But it's difficult to believe how (generally) inspecific virus may infect such different groups of organisms

Unrelated E. coli