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From: Wayne Stalder <w.stalder@student.murdoch.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Is a virus alive?
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 15:15:19 +0800
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This queation is subjective it depends on whether or not you define living
in terms of reproductive ability, if so than yes, a virus is a living
orgamism. If however you define life as self reproducing only than a virus
comes into its own catagory of anomaly

On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, R. BAKER wrote:

> Is a virus a living organism or not????  It can reproduce but must rely 
> on the host cell and the host cell's metabolism?  What constitutes a 
> virus as alive or non-living?
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