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Consider the new definition of life. If you were to argue that a virus or a single mitochondria were, in fact, alive based on this definition, you would be ignoring the main tenet of?

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A cell theory.

Since cells are the basic unit of structure in all organisms and also the basic unit of reproduction.
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