1. Which organisms act as an interlink between
living and non-living organisms? Why do you
think so? (AS1)
Answers
Answer:
Viruses act as an interlink between living and non-living organisms.
Viruses are commonly regarded as the ‘fine line between alive and not-alive’: they evolve like living things, but don’t have their own reproductive apparatus or metabolism.
Some biologists think that viruses may have evolved from mobile genetic elements in prokaryotes (eg. plasmids); others think viruses have a deeper origin.
Viruses may infect every type of organism, from bacteria to plants to mammals.
Answer:
The organisms which act as interlink between living and non. living organism are producers I. e plants because the plants make their food with the help of non living things (carbon, dioxide, sunlight, nitrogen etc.) and we got our food from plants which makes a cycle of food between the living and non.