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Are viruses alive? This question is debated among scientists throughout the world. Consider the following passage. Scientific researchers discovered agents that behaved like bacteria causing diseases such as rabies and hoof-and-mouth, but were much smaller. At this time it became the general view that viruses were biologically "alive." This perception changed in 1935 when the tobacco mosaic virus was crystallized and scientists demonstrated that the particles lacked any mechanisms necessary for metabolic function. It was determined that viruses consisted of a nucleic acid, DNA or RNA, surrounded by a protein shell and the scientific view changed: viruses are complex biochemical mechanisms but not alive.

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Viruses are also k/a connecting link b/w living and non living and the main reason for this is that outside host body they don't show any living character but inside host they starts to capture the complete metabolism of host body and take all resources of host in order to create more viral DNA along with protein coats in short starts to replicate.

So inside host viruses are living while outside non living....

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