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Why Viruses Are Crucial To Life On This Planet, The Link Between Air Pollution, Glyphosate & Pandemics, Loss Of Biodiversity (& What We Can Do About It) & More With Dr. Zach Bush.

Ben Greenfield Life

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The Communication Network of Virals

To say that they're alive, you would have to show some capacity for producing energy within them and reproduce. In the same way, if we're going to call viruses living, then we could start to classify complex carbon metabolites in soil as living organisms. They certainly become and folded into active proteins as soon as they're consumed by a bacteria or a living multicellular organism like a human. We would have to really look a lot deeper into our definition of what's alive and what's not.

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