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Virus Poll Are Viruses Alive? ... Are viruses alive?: What do you think? ... Getting a definite answer if viruses are alive or not may never happen.
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www.beyondbooks.com/lif72/2c.asp
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For about 100 years, the scientifi c community has repeatedly changed its collective mind over what viruses are. First seen as poisons, then as life-forms, then biological chemicals, viruses today are thought of as being in a gray area betw...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-vi...
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Yes viruses are aLive because it infects a living cell in ordere to grow and reproduce in anyway at alL .
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Are_viruses_alive
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Viruses; Like a parasitic factory, a virus reprograms a cell with its own genetic material to produce more of itself. This enigmatic entity was discovered by Scottish scientist Robert Buist in the 1880s. Learn more about viruses at this webpage, designed by high school students.
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No. Viruses are not alive, because the processes of life that all "living" organisms must have is 1.it needs to produce waste, which viruses do not (but bacteria do) 2.use energy. Actually, viruses use energy, but not in the sam...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090428180...
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Are Viruses Alive? Luis P Villarreal December 2004 Scientific American Vol. 291 Issue 6, p10 ... The seemingly simple question of whether or not viruses are alive, which my students often ask, has probably defied a simple answer all these years because it raises a fundamental issue: What exactly defines "life?"
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Are viruses living? Kim Michalek Answer: There is a tremendous debate about this question - scientists do not agree on the answer. Some people consider them to be just a bunch of chemicals. Other people consider them to be living parasites...
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bio99/bio99333.ht...
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The simplest answer is no, for a few reasons, but I recognise that this answer does not address all the philosophical baggage tied up with "life" and what being alive means. At best, viruses could be considered undead.
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www.uq.edu.au/vdu/BasicsVirusesAlive.htm
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Oct. 2, 2006 — What is the issue regarding whether viruses are alive or dead? Why do some scientists believe a virus is alive and some believe it's dead? —Anonymous ... whitehead home > public programs > ask a scientist > archives > are viruses alive?
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