which organisms are interlinked between living and non-living organisms? why do you think so?
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The organism between living and non-living organisms is viruses. In fact, viruses have hardly characters that are associated with living beings.
They should not reproduce nor can they can feed themselves with the aid of host cells.
These are common in both non living and living organisms. Production is very important as it seems to be important in life.
Answer:
Viruses are a group of organisms which act as interlink between living and nonliving organisms. We think so because viruses are a group of organisms which exhibit characteristics both of living organisms and of nonliving organisms. Viruses are a special kind of case which exhibits properties intermediate of both.
They exhibit living characteristics in the following manner:
● Viruses have genetic material as the entire living organism possess and it can be RNA or DNA, and this nucleic acid i.e. genetic material remains protected by a covering called protein capsid.
● They are able to replicate and can synthesize nucleic acids and proteins but for all this, they require a host, another living organism whose biosynthetic machinery they will utilize for their propagation and survival.
They exhibit nonliving characteristics in the following manner:
● Unless they don’t get any living host they are not able to replicate and propagate, therefore in absence of a living host, they will act as nonliving organism since they don’t exhibit the property of replication.
Since they can exhibit the behavior of living organisms after entering into a living host and as a non-living organism in absence of a living host, viruses are considered as an interconnecting link between the living and nonliving organisms.