>> David N. Levy:
>> I would add that (most fundamentally) viruses are always obligate
>> intracellular parasites, whereas bacteria are often free living. Also,
>> viruses are essentially without endogenous metabolism outside their
>> host and are thus considered non-living by many or most biologists or
>> at least within a grey area of the definition of "life".
>But then, most biologists are not virologists...and anyone with
>access to the very excellent Luria et al. "General Virology", 3rd
>Edn, will very quickly realise:
>a) viruses are DIFFERENT to cellular lifeforms, but no less worthy of
>being called alive; and
>b) it all depends on what your definitions of "life" and "organisms"
>are.
>>Viruses live OK...!
Ed
I wholeheartedly agree!!!
Bart Corsaro
Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines and Pediatrics
