Sentences with phrase «viruses as living organisms»

Scientists typically don't classify viruses as living organisms, but giant viruses like these, with their own protein - making machinery and other functions normally carried out in living cells, blur the lines between what's alive and what isn't.

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Sea spray is a complex mixture of inorganic salts, organic material present in the ocean and living organisms such as bacteria, viruses and fungi.

So - called RNA viruses are rogues: smaller, fast - replicating shape - shifters, descended from a time that evolutionary biologists refer to as the RNA world, back near the base of life's tree, before today's DNA - based organisms evolved.

Viruses, being dependent on these organisms to host them, are viewed as evolutionary latecomers: genomic scraps that fell out onto the floor back when life was assembling itself into more complex arrangements.

They are similar to obligate intracellular parasites as they lack the means for self - reproduction outside a host cell, but unlike parasites, viruses are generally not considered to be true living organisms.

Dogs are just like any other living organism as bacteria and viruses love to attach to their bodies and spread.