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Organise a discussion is your class on the topic are viruses living or non-livings ?
BiologyBiological Classification
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Viruses are link between living and non-living. They possess some living character and some non-living characters. Crystallization is non-living character but it can reproduce inside living body.
Actually viruses are metabolically inert when outside the host-cell. They reproduce using the metabolic machinery of the host cell.

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