Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one complicate matters.
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I wonder if this is a single cell bacteria in the process of becoming a virus? This could be an important evolutionary link to how viruses come about.
Or a kind of proto-cell.
It seems obvious to me that if our taxonomy fails to describe the natural world, then our definition of life is inadequate. Viruses being “not alive” because semantics has bugged me since the 7th grade.
Reminds me of myself as a teenager