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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Virus' are living according to an article in 2019 published by DOENY
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No,they are on the borderline of living and non living things.
They seems dead when they are in the atmosphere
but seems to be alive and reproduce when inside a living organism.
And they contain RNA
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