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> Is a virus a living thing? Maybe. Maybe Virus is akin to a SEED. Seeds are inert/dead by themselves, but it carries as all the code/DNA/instructions needed t
by redindian75 7y ago
> Is a virus a living thing? Maybe.
Maybe Virus is akin to a SEED. Seeds are inert/dead by themselves, but it carries as all the code/DNA/instructions needed to spring to life, flourish & even reproduce infinitely when put in an friendly environment (nourished soil with water, O2 etc)
- heurifk 7y agoA seed is way more alive than a virus. It only needs very simple things.
- taylorlunt 7y agoBut a virus doesn't "spring to life." A virus is like a seed that just generates more seeds without ever making a plant.
- ajna91 7y agoThe seed analogy may be onto something. Some viruses don't directly cause the host to create new viruses. Instead they direct the creation of virus creating factories, which create the virus. Then you get virophages which are even tinier than normal viruses, which infect the virus factories of other viruses.
- djmips 7y agoWhen it takes over the cell, the cell is now the plant.
- jacquesm 7y agoSeeds are not dead. Seeds are alive because their cells are alive. If too many of the seeds cells die then the seed can no longer germinate. That's why seeds can survive long periods of frost and stay active over very long periods, it is their cells that ensure they will be able to react to changes in the environment that suggest that the seed could germinate.