Seeding Life Across the Galaxy Like a Farmer Planting Crops

She's suggesting we seed life across the galaxy like a farmer planting crops on a farm. This wouldn't be terra forming, altering the environ ment of the other planet so that whatever we ship there makes it. But just a little bit of extra chemistry to get that process going. The trick is, you know, it's a fine line between life and non life. Is a virus alive?