I mis-spoke; it wasn't my intention to call viruses alive. My intention was actually the opposite: I was trying to anticipate a possible objection to what I sai

I mis-spoke; it wasn't my intention to call viruses alive. My intention was actually the opposite: I was trying to anticipate a possible objection to what I said about all known life having the same genome type (double stranded DNA). That's true as long as one discounts viruses as a sort of life. Really though, whether one wants to call viruses alive or not is a philosophical point, detached from any real significance.