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In the 1930s , American biochemist Wendell Stanley observed crystals of tobacco mosaic virus. Based on this evidence, Stanley inferred that viruses

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he inferred that viruses are not living organisms. More recently, some scientists have questioned whether viruses act as living organisms because they can manage to form replicates of themselves.

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