If I had a microscope that could see atoms and molecules, how far out would I need to zoom before I could tell I was looking at life?
I’ve heard things like “people are 70% water” but water is not alive.
I’m asking in chemistry because I’m not sure if life at a molecular level is considered biology.
In: Chemistry
This is a very good question. There is a definition for live and with this definition a virus is not a living being. The border between so called live and just chemistry is fluid. Not a single molecule in our body is at live. But the whole body is. There is no scientific answer to that it’s philosophic.
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