What are viruses? Are they alive? Should we care? Listen to this episode to discover these tiny organisms and learn more about their biology.
Takeaways:
- 1) Viruses are organisms that can spread between individuals; 2) That take the resources to spread and reproduce from other organisms; 3) that must get inside the cells of the organisms they infect to reproduce; 4) That are made of DNA or RNA contained within a coat of proteins.
- Viruses are fundamentally dead (except when they are intracellular).
- We should not humanize them. Viruses are passive agents.
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