Eli5: what exactly is a virus and are viruses alive?

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Eli5: what exactly is a virus and are viruses alive?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Oooo I love this debate. People will try to tell you it’s settled one way another but they are wrong. Personally I think if you looked at all this universe and classified them into living and not living viruses would very obviously be alive. They look so much more like life, but they don’t self replicate. It’s semantics but it does matter. What is life? Why do we are?

Anonymous 0 Comments

So I’m really stupid. Let’s try to explain: virus is sick 🤒 in body. It is dangerous if not treated with antibiotics or the right medication. Natural healing is not to be taken lightly. Hmm 🤔 did I pass?

Anonymous 0 Comments

So I’m really stupid. Let’s try to explain: virus is sick 🤒 in body. It is dangerous if not treated with antibiotics or the right medication. Natural healing is not to be taken lightly. Hmm 🤔 did I pass?

Anonymous 0 Comments

So I’m really stupid. Let’s try to explain: virus is sick 🤒 in body. It is dangerous if not treated with antibiotics or the right medication. Natural healing is not to be taken lightly. Hmm 🤔 did I pass?

Anonymous 0 Comments

Viruses are right at the edge of what’s alive and what isn’t; arguing the toss is a somewhat sterile occupation. They’re basically a parcel of instructions and a few useful tools. They can’t reproduce on their own, but they’re biological and they can trick cells into producing more copies of them.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Viruses are right at the edge of what’s alive and what isn’t; arguing the toss is a somewhat sterile occupation. They’re basically a parcel of instructions and a few useful tools. They can’t reproduce on their own, but they’re biological and they can trick cells into producing more copies of them.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Viruses are right at the edge of what’s alive and what isn’t; arguing the toss is a somewhat sterile occupation. They’re basically a parcel of instructions and a few useful tools. They can’t reproduce on their own, but they’re biological and they can trick cells into producing more copies of them.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Somebody delivered an instruction manual in your door and you open it read it and changed the way you run your house that includes your printer. Somehow you printed more copies of the manual before the whole house is in disarray because of new rules and instructions it become dysfunctional and destroyed itself. Somehow the copies of the manual made it to the next few houses and repeats the process.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Somebody delivered an instruction manual in your door and you open it read it and changed the way you run your house that includes your printer. Somehow you printed more copies of the manual before the whole house is in disarray because of new rules and instructions it become dysfunctional and destroyed itself. Somehow the copies of the manual made it to the next few houses and repeats the process.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Somebody delivered an instruction manual in your door and you open it read it and changed the way you run your house that includes your printer. Somehow you printed more copies of the manual before the whole house is in disarray because of new rules and instructions it become dysfunctional and destroyed itself. Somehow the copies of the manual made it to the next few houses and repeats the process.